Judges 17:13
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New International Version (©2011)
And Micah said, "Now I know that the LORD will be good to me, since this Levite has become my priest."

New Living Translation (©2007)
"I know the LORD will bless me now," Micah said, "because I have a Levite serving as my priest."

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then Micah said, “Now I know that the LORD will prosper me, because I have a Levite as priest.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then Micah said, "Now I know that the LORD will prosper me, seeing I have a Levite as priest."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then Micah said, "Now I know that the LORD will be good to me, because a Levite has become my priest."

International Standard Version (©2012)
As for Micah, he kept saying, "Now I know the LORD will make me rich, because I have a descendant of Levi for a priest!"

NET Bible (©2006)
Micah said, "Now I know God will make me rich, because I have this Levite as my priest."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then Micah said, "Now I know that the LORD will be good to me. I have a Levite for my priest."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite as my priest.

American King James Version
Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.

American Standard Version
Then said Micah, Now know I that Jehovah will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now I know God will do me good, since I have a priest of the race of the Levites.

Darby Bible Translation
Then Micah said, "Now I know that the LORD will prosper me, because I have a Levite as priest."

English Revised Version
Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then said Micah, Now I know that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite for my priest.

World English Bible
Then Micah said, "Now know I that Yahweh will do good to me, since I have a Levite to my priest."

Young's Literal Translation
and Micah saith, 'Now I have known that Jehovah doth good to me, for the Levite hath been to me for a priest.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

17:7-13 Micah thought it was a sign of God's favour to him and his images, that a Levite should come to his door. Thus those who please themselves with their own delusions, if Providence unexpectedly bring any thing to their hands that further them in their evil way, are apt from thence to think that God is pleased with them.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 13. - Then said Micah, etc. We may notice this incidental proof that the Levites in the time of Micah held the religious position which is ascribed to them in the Pentateuch. I have a Levite. Rather, the Levite, meaning the particular Levite of whom it is the question. A Levite would be without the article, as in ver. 7, or would be expressed as in Judges 19:1 (Hebrews), a man a Levite.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then said Micah,.... Within himself, pleased with what he had done, and with what he engaged in:

now know I that the Lord will do me good; that I shall enjoy his favour, be a happy man, and prosper; and by this it appears, that notwithstanding the idolatry he had fallen into, he had not utterly forsaken the Lord, but worshipped him in and by his images; there was a mixture of the worship of God, and of the worship of images:

seeing I have a Levite to my priest; who was of the same tribe the priests were, and so the nearest to them of any, and which he thought would be acceptable to God, and an omen of good to himself.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

13. Now know I that the Lord will do me good—The removal of his son, followed by the installation of this Levite into the priestly office, seems to have satisfied his conscience, that by what he deemed the orderly ministrations of religion he would prosper. This expression of his hope evinces the united influence of ignorance and superstition.

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Micah's Idolatry
…11And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons. 12And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah. 13Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.

Judges 17:12 Then Micah installed the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in his house.
Judges 18:1 In those days Israel had no king. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking a place of their own where they might settle, because they had not yet come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.