And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed .
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Gill's Exposition
And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah, to sojourn where he could find a place,.... Either being a man that had a rambling head, and of an unsettled mind, and could not easily fix…
Barnes' Notes
Jonathan’s state without a home gives us vivid picture of what must have been the condition of many Levites.
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
And the man departed Here comes the wandering Levite, who, in the course of his travels, arrives at Micah's house; he is the counterpart of the young manalready settled there. This narrative no doubt…