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Darby's French Translation
Juges 18:19
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Mais ils lui dirent: Tais-toi, et mets ta main sur ta bouche, et viens avec nous; tu nous serviras de pčre et de sacrificateur. Lequel vaut mieux pour toi, d'ętre sacrificateur de la maison d'un seul homme, ou d'ętre sacrificateur d'une tribu et d'une famille en Israël?
Ils lui répondirent: Tais-toi, mets ta main sur ta bouche, et viens avec nous; tu nous serviras de pčre et de prętre. Vaut-il mieux que tu serves de prętre ŕ la maison d'un seul homme, ou que tu serves de prętre ŕ une tribu et ŕ une famille en Israël?
Et ils lui dirent : Tais-toi, et mets ta main sur ta bouche, et viens avec nous, et sois-nous pour pčre et pour Sacrificateur. Lequel te vaut-il mieux, d'ętre Sacrificateur de la maison d'un homme seul, ou d'ętre Sacrificateur d'une Tribu et d'une famille en Israël?
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
lay thine: This was the token of silence. These men were evidently very ignorant; and absurdly concluded that they should, by taking Micah's gods, secure the presence and favour of the God of Israel, in their expedition and settlement. They perhaps supposed the piety of their motives, and the goodness of their end, would justify the means. But it was a base robbery of Micah, aggravated by the Levite's ingratitude, and their menaces. Job 21:5, Job 29:9, Job 40:4, Job 40:5, Proverbs 30:32, Micah 7:16
a father: Judges 17:10, 2 Kings 6:21, 2 Kings 8:8, 2 Kings 8:9, 2 Kings 13:14, Matthew 23:9
Reciprocal: Matthew 26:15 - What 1 Timothy 6:10 - the love
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And they said unto him, hold thy peace,.... Be silent, make no disturbance, be quiet and easy:
lay thy hand upon thy mouth; as a token of silence; so the Egyptians used to paint Harpocrates, the god of silence, with his fingers pressing his lips:
and go with us; for they wanted him as well as his gods, not knowing well how to make use of them without him:
and be to us a father and a priest; to direct them, instruct them, perform acts of devotion for them, and ask counsel on their account; it seems as if it was common in those days to call a priest a father, see
Judges 17:10
is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel? suggesting, that it must be much more honourable for him, and more to his advantage, to officiate as a priest to a body of people, that might be called a tribe, or to a family consisting of various houses, than in the house of a private person; this they left him to consider and judge of.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Judges 18:19. Lay thine hand upon thy mouth — This was the token of silence. The god of silence, Harpocrates, is represented on ancient statues with his finger pressed on his lips.
