And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
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Gill's Exposition
And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah,.... As there were two Bethlehems, one in the tribe of Zebulun, Jos 19:15 and another in the tribe of Judah, the place here designed, Judah is added to…
Barnes' Notes
The Hebrew words for “he sojourned there” are, שׁם גר gêr shām, which words are used Jdg 18:30 in the genealogy of this young Levite, whose name was “Jonathan, the son of Gershom” (גרשׁם…
We have here an account of Micah's furnishing himself with a Levite for his chaplain, either thinking his son, because the heir of his estate, too good to officiate, or rather, because not of God's…
Cambridge Bible
a young man … sojourned there i.e. in the neighbourhood of Micah's house. Technically the word sojourner(Hebr. gçr) means one who lives under the protection of a tribe to which he does not belong by…
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