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Judges 17:7

King James Version (KJV)

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Judges 17:7

Verse 7 of 13

Scripture focus

And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who [was] a Levite, and he sojourned there.

Judges 17:7 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Judges 17:7

Theological / Devotional

A young man. Strange as it may seem, this renegade Levite was probably the grandson of Moses (see on ch. 18:30).

Beth-lehem-judah. It was called thus to distinguish it from the Bethlehem in Zebulun (Joshua 19:15; see on Judges 12:8).

A Levite. How he could be a Levite and of the family of Judah as well, the record does not state. His mother may have been from one tribe and his father from the other. Bethlehem-judah may have been a center for Levites at that time (see v. 8; ch. 19:1, 18), although the place is not mentioned as a Levitical city in the list given in Joshua 21:4—41.

Sojourned. The Hebrew word indicates a temporary settlement.

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