Judges 17:13 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

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

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

Then Micah said, Now I am certain that the Lord will do me good, seeing that the Levite has become my priest.

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

JPS:

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

WBS:

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

WEB:

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

YLT:

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

Judges 17:13 Cross References

XREF:

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)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

17:13 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.

WES:

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.

MHC:

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.

CONC:

Levite Micah Priest Prosper Seeing

Levite Micah Priest Prosper

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