Juges 17:8

La Bible David Martin

Lequel partit de cette ville-là, [savoir] de Bethléhem de Juda, pour aller demeurer où il trouverait [sa commodité], et continuant son chemin, il vint en la montagne d'Ephraïm jusqu'à la maison de Mica.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Cet homme partit de la ville de Bethléhem de Juda, pour aller demeurer où il trouverait son avantage. Et il vint, en poursuivant son chemin, à la montagne d'Éphraïm, jusqu'à la maison de Mica.

Darby's French Translation
Et l'homme s'en alla de sa ville, de Bethléhem de Juda, pour séjourner là où il trouverait un lieu; et, chemin faisant, il vint à la montagne d'Éphraïm, jusqu'à la maison de Michée.

Louis Segond (1910)
Cet homme partit de la ville de Bethléhem de Juda, pour chercher une demeure qui lui convînt. En poursuivant son chemin, il arriva dans la montagne d'Ephraïm jusqu'à la maison de Mica.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

departed: Judges 17:11, Nehemiah 13:10, Nehemiah 13:11

as he journeyed: Heb. in making his way

Reciprocal: Judges 19:1 - mount Ruth 1:1 - a famine

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 any where; or else there being no supreme magistrate, to take care that the Levites had their due maintenance, for which there was a sufficient provision made by law; and the people being negligent of paying their tithes, there being none to oblige them to it, and they indifferent to the true worship of God, and prone to idolatry; this man was obliged to go abroad, and seek for a livelihood where he could get it, and sojourn in a place the most convenient for him:

and he came to Mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, as he journeyed: not with a design to stay there, but called by the way, having heard perhaps that Micah was both a wealthy and an hospitable man, and he also might have heard of the new form of worship he had set up in his house.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jonathan’s state without a home gives us vivid picture of what must have been the condition of many Levites.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 17:8. To sojourn where he could find — He went about the country seeking for some employment, for the Levites had no inheritance: besides, no secure residence could be found where there was no civil government.