Judges 17:13
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New International Version (©1984)
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."

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 Bible
Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to 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.

Bible in Basic English
Then Micah said, Now I am certain that the Lord will do me good, seeing that the Levite has become 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.'

Geneva Study Bible

Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me {i} good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.

(i) Thus the idolaters persuade themselves of God's favour, when indeed he detests them.

Wesley's Notes

17:13 Do me good - I am assured God will bless me. So blind and grossly partial he was in his judgment, to think that one right circumstance would answer for all his substantial errors, in making and worshipping images against God's express command, in worshipping God in a forbidden place, by a priest illegally appointed.

Scofield Reference Notes

[1] Now know I

A striking illustration of all apostasy. With his entire departure from the revealed will of God concerning worship and priesthood, there is yet an exaltation of false priesthood. Saying, "Blessed be thou of Jehovah," Micah's mother makes an idol; and Micah expects the blessing of Jehovah because he has linked his idolatry to the ancient levitical order.

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.

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.


Judges 17:12 So Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in the house of Micah.
Judges 18:1 In those days there was no king of Israel; and in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking an inheritance for themselves to live in, for until that day an inheritance had not been allotted to them as a possession among the tribes of Israel. (NASB ©1995)

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

Pr 14:12 Isa 44:20 6:3,4 Mt 15:9,13 Joh 16:2 Ac 26:9 Ro 10:2,3

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