Judges 17:7 Parallel Translations

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.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

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.

DBY:

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

ERV:

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

JPS:

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

WBS:

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

WEB:

There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.

YLT:

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.

Judges 17:7 Cross References

XREF:

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)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

17:7 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.

WES:

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.

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:

Bethlehem Beth-lehem Bethlehemjudah Beth-lehem-judah Clan Family Judah Levite Sojourned Sojourner Staying Townsman Within

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

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