Judges 17:13

Updated Bible Version

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will be good to me, because a Levite has become my priest.”

Hebrew Names Version
Then said Mikhah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my Kohen.

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

Lexham English Bible
And Micah said, "Now I know Yahweh will make me prosperous, because the Levite has become my priest."

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

New Century Version
Then Micah said, "Now I know the Lord will be good to me, because I have a Levite as my priest."

New English Translation
Micah said, "Now I know the Lord will make me rich, because I have this Levite as my priest."

Amplified Bible
Then Micah said, "Now I know that the LORD will favor me and make me prosper because I have a Levite as my priest."

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then said Michah, Nowe I know that the Lord will be good vnto me, seeing I haue a Leuite to my Priest.

Legacy Standard Bible
Toe sê Miga: Nou weet ek dat die HERE aan my goed sal doen, omdat ek 'n Leviet as priester het.

Contemporary English Version
Micah said, "I have a Levite as my own priest. Now I know that the Lord will be kind to me."

Complete Jewish Bible
Mikhah said, "Now I know that Adonai will treat me well, because I have a Levi for a cohen.

Darby Translation
Then said Micah, Now I know that Jehovah will do me good, because I have the Levite for priest.

Easy-to-Read Version
And Micah said, "Now I know that the Lord will be good to me. I know this because I have a man from the tribe of Levi to be my priest."

George Lamsa Translation
Then said Micah, Now I know that the LORD will do me good, seeing that the Levite has become my priest.

Good News Translation
Micah said, "Now that I have a Levite as my priest, I know that the Lord will make things go well for me."

Literal Translation
And Micah said, Now I know that Jehovah will do me good, for the Levite is a priest to me.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Micha sayde: I am sure the LORDE wyll do me good now, that I haue a Leuite to my prest.

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

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

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then sayde Micah: Now I am sure that the Lord will be good vnto me, seing I haue a Leuite to my prieste.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then said Micah: 'Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite as my priest.'

King James Version (1611)
Then said Micah, Now know I that the Lord will doe me good, seeing I haue a Leuite to my Priest.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Michaias said, Now I know that the Lord will do me good, because a Levite has become my priest.

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

Berean Standard Bible
Then Micah said, "Now I know that the LORD will be good to me, because a Levite has become my priest."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and seide, Now Y woot, that God schal do wel to me, hauynge a preest of the kyn of Leuy.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
Then said Micah, Now I know that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite for [my] priest.

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

New King James Version
Then Micah said, "Now I know that the LORD will be good to me, since I have a Levite as priest!"

New Living Translation
"I know the Lord will bless me now," Micah said, "because I have a Levite serving as my priest."

New Life Bible
Then Micah said, "Now I know that the Lord will bring good to me because I have a Levite as my religious leader."

New Revised Standard
Then Micah said, "Now I know that the Lord will prosper me, because the Levite has become my priest."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then said Micah - Now, I know that Yahweh will do me good, - seeing I have a Levite as my priest.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now I know God will do me good, since I have a priest of the race of the Levites.

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

THE MESSAGE
Micah said, "Now I know that God will make things go well for me—why, I've got a Levite for a priest!"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Micah said, "Now I know that the LORD will prosper me, seeing I have a Levite as priest."

Contextual Overview

⁷ And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there. ⁸ And the man departed out of the city, out of Beth-lehem-judah, to sojourn where he could find [a place], and he came to the hill-country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed. ⁹ And Micah said to him, Where do you come from? And he said to him, I am a Levite of Beth-lehem-judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find [a place]. ¹⁰ And Micah said to him, Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten [pieces] of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and your victuals. So the Levite went in. ¹¹ And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons. ¹² And Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah. ¹³ Then Micah said, Now I know that Yahweh will do me good, seeing I have a Levite for my priest.

Bible Verse Review
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Proverbs 14:12, Isaiah 44:20, Isaiah 66:3, Isaiah 66:4, Matthew 15:9, Matthew 15:13, John 16:2, Acts 26:9, Romans 10:2, Romans 10:3

Reciprocal: Judges 17:3 - I had wholly Judges 18:5 - of God Judges 18:24 - what have 2 Kings 17:27 - one of the priests Proverbs 30:12 - that are Isaiah 5:18 - draw Isaiah 48:2 - and stay

Cross-References

Genesis 14:14
And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he mobilized his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.

Genesis 15:3
And Abram said, Look, to me you have given no seed: and, see, one born in my house is my heir.

Genesis 37:27
Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and don't let our hand be on him; for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers listened to him.

Genesis 37:36
And the Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.

Genesis 39:1
And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hand of the Ishmaelites, that had brought him down there.

Exodus 12:44
but every man's slave that is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then he shall eat thereof.

Exodus 21:2
If you buy a Hebrew slave, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

Exodus 21:4
If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

Exodus 21:16
And he that steals a man, and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

Nehemiah 5:5
Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our sons as their sons: and, look, we bring into slavery our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters are brought into slavery [already]: neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then said Micah,.... Within himself, pleased with what he had done, and with what he engaged in:

now know I that the Lord will do me good; that I shall enjoy his favour, be a happy man, and prosper; and by this it appears, that notwithstanding the idolatry he had fallen into, he had not utterly forsaken the Lord, but worshipped him in and by his images; there was a mixture of the worship of God, and of the worship of images:

seeing I have a Levite to my priest; who was of the same tribe the priests were, and so the nearest to them of any, and which he thought would be acceptable to God, and an omen of good to himself.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This shows the ignorance as well as the superstition of the age (compare 2 Kings 18:22), and gives a picture of the lawlessness of the times. The incidental testimony to the Levitical priesthood is to be noted; but the idolatrous worship in the immediate neighborhood of Shiloh is passing strange.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 17:13. Now know I that the Lord will do me good — As he had already provided an epitome of the tabernacle, a model of the ark, mercy-seat, and cherubim; and had got proper sacerdotal vestments, and a Levite to officiate; he took for granted that all was right, and that he should now have the benediction of God. Some think that he expected great gain from the concourse of the people to his temple; but of this there is no evidence in the text. Micah appears to have been perfectly sincere in all that he did.

I HAVE already remarked that there is no positive evidence that Micah or his mother intended to establish any idolatrous worship. Though they acted without any Divine command in what they did; yet they appear, not only to have been perfectly sincere, but also perfectly disinterested. They put themselves to considerable expense to erect this place of worship, and to maintain, at their own proper charges, a priest to officiate there; and without this the place, in all probability, would have been destitute of the worship and knowledge of the true God. His sincerity, disinterestedness, and attachment to the worship of the God of his fathers, are farther seen in the joy which he expressed on finding a Levite who might legally officiate in his house. It is true, he had not a Divine warrant for what he did; but the state of the land, the profligacy of his countrymen, his distance from Shiloh, &c., considered, he appears to deserve more praise than blame, though of the latter he has received a most liberal share from every quarter. This proceeds from that often-noticed propensity in man to take every thing which concerns the character of another by the worst handle. It cannot be considered any particular crime, should these notes be found at any time leaning to the other side.