When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?
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Gill's Exposition
When they were by the house of Micah,.... At their inn, which might be next to it, or as they were passing by it:
they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; who had been in their country, and…
Barnes' Notes
It does not follow that they had known him before, and recognized his voice, though it may be so. But the Hebrew equally bears the sense that they heard the voice of the Levite; and, attracted by it,…
Here is, 1. The eye which these Danites had upon Laish, not the whole tribe of Dan, but one family of them, to whose lot, in the subdivision of Canaan, that city fell. Hitherto this family had…
Cambridge Bible
When they were by the house of Micah repeats what has just been said in Jdg 18:18; this verse must belong to the narrative of the young man the LeviteJdg 17:7; Jdg 17:11 b, 12 a. Before he made his…
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