Judges 17:1 Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim

English Standard Version
There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.

New American Standard Bible
Now there was a man of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah.

King James Bible
And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
There was a man from the hill country of Ephraim named Micah.

International Standard Version
A man named Micah lived in the mountainous region of the territory of Ephraim.

American Standard Version
And there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
There was at that time a man of mount Ephraim whose name was Michas,

Darby Bible Translation
There was a man of the hill country of E'phraim, whose name was Micah.

Young's Literal Translation
And there is a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name is Micah,

Cross References

Judges 16:31
Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial plot of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.

Judges 17:2
And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you, about which you cursed, and spoke of also in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be you of the LORD, my son.

Judges 18:2
And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said to them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

17:1-6 What is related in this, and the rest of the chapters to the end of this book, was done soon after the death of Joshua: see chap. Jud 20:28. That it might appear how happy the nation was under the Judges, here is showed how unhappy they were when there was no Judge. The love of money made Micah so undutiful to his mother as to rob her, and made her so unkind to her son, as to curse him. Outward losses drive good people to their prayers, but bad people to their curses. This woman's silver was her god, before it was made into a graven or a molten image. Micah and his mother agreed to turn their money into a god, and set up idol worship in their family. See the cause of this corruption. Every man did that which was right in his own eyes, and then they soon did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

CHAPTER 17

Jud 17:1-4. Micah Restoring the Stolen Money to His Mother, She Makes Images.

1. a man of mount Ephraim—that is, the mountainous parts of Ephraim. This and the other narratives that follow form a miscellaneous collection, or appendix to the Book of Judges. It belongs to a period when the Hebrew nation was in a greatly disordered and corrupt state. This episode of Micah is connected with Jud 1:34. It relates to his foundation of a small sanctuary of his own—a miniature representation of the Shiloh tabernacle—which he stocked with images modelled probably in imitation of the ark and cherubim. Micah and his mother were sincere in their intention to honor God. But their faith was blended with a sad amount of ignorance and delusion. The divisive course they pursued, as well as the will-worship they practised, subjected the perpetrators to the penalty of death.