Judges 17:7
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New International Version (©1984)
A young Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, who had been living within the clan of Judah,

New Living Translation (©2007)
One day a young Levite, who had been living in Bethlehem in Judah, arrived in that area.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Now there was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he was staying there.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
There was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah. (Bethlehem belongs to the family of Judah.) He was a Levite but was living in Bethlehem.

King James Bible
And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.

American King James Version
And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.

American Standard Version
And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.

Bible in Basic English
Now there was a young man living in Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah and a Levite, who was not a townsman of the place.

Douay-Rheims Bible
There was also another young man of Bethlehem Juda, of the kindred thereof: and he was a Levite, and dwelt there.

Darby Bible Translation
Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.

English Revised Version
And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.

Webster's Bible Translation
And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.

World English Bible
There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he lived there.

Young's Literal Translation
And there is a young man of Beth-Lehem-Judah, of the family of Judah, and he is a Levite, and he is a sojourner there.

Geneva Study Bible

And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah {f} of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.

(f) Which Bethlehem was in the tribe of Judah.

Wesley's Notes

17:7 Bethlehem - judah - So called here, as Matt 2:1,5, to difference it from Bethlehem in Zebulun. There he was born and bred. Of Judah - That is, of or belonging to the tribe of Judah; not by birth, for he was a Levite; but by his habitation and ministration. For the Levites were dispersed among all the tribes; and this man's lot fell into the tribe of Judah. Sojourned - So he expresseth it, because this was not the proper place of his abode, this being no Levitical city.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

7. Beth-lehem-judah-so called in contradistinction to a town of the same name in Zebulun (Jos 19:15).

of the family-that is, tribe.

of Judah-Men of the tribe of Levi might connect themselves, as Aaron did (Ex 6:23), by marriage with another tribe; and this young Levite belonged to the tribe of Judah, by his mother's side, which accounts for his being in Beth-lehem, not one of the Levitical cities.

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 19:1 Now it came about in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite staying in the remote part of the hill country of Ephraim, who took a concubine for himself from Bethlehem in Judah.
Ruth 1:1 Now it came about in the days when the judges governed, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the land of Moab with his wife and his two sons.
Ruth 1:2 The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife, Naomi; and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem in Judah. Now they entered the land of Moab and remained there.
Micah 5:2 "But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Too little to be among the clans of Judah, From you One will go forth for Me to be ruler in Israel. His goings forth are from long ago, From the days of eternity."
Matthew 2:1 Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying, (NASB ©1995)

Bethlehem Beth-Lehem Bethlehemjudah Beth-Lehem-Judah Clan Judah Levite Sojourned Sojourner Staying There Within Young


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

Beth-lehem-judah Jud 19:1,2 Ge 35:19 Jos 19:15 Ru 1:1,2 Mic 5:2 Mt 2:1,5,6

of the family. That is, of the tribe of Judah by his mother; and of that of Levi by his father

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