Hakim-hakim 17:8

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Lalu orang itu keluar dari kota Betlehem-Yehuda untuk menetap sebagai pendatang di mana saja ia mendapat tempat; dan dalam perjalanannya itu sampailah ia ke pegunungan Efraim di rumah Mikha.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Lalu orang itu keluar dari kota Betlehem-Yehuda untuk menetap sebagai pendatang di mana saja ia mendapat tempat; dan dalam perjalanannya itu sampailah ia ke pegunungan Efraim di rumah Mikha.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka orang itupun telah keluar dari negeri itu, yaitu dari Betlehem-Yehuda, hendak menumpang seperti orang dagang barang di manapun baik; maka setelah sampai ia ke pegunungan Efrayim dan ke rumah Mikha ia hendak langsung kepada jalannya,

Contextual Overview

⁷ And there was a young man out of Bethlehem Iuda, of the kynred of Iuda, which young man was a Leuite, & soiourned there. ⁸ And the man departed out of the citie of Bethlehem Iuda, to go dwell where he coulde fynde [a conuenient place]: And he came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah as he iourneyed. ⁹ And Micah sayde vnto him: Whence comest thou? The Leuite aunswered hym: I am of Bethlehem Iuda, and go to dwell where I may fynde [a place]. ¹⁰ And Micah sayde agayne vnto hym: Dwell with me, and be vnto me a father and a prieste, and I will geue thee ten syluerlynges by yere, two garmentes, and thy meate and dryncke. So the Leuite went in. ¹¹ And ye Leuite was content to dwell with the man, and was vnto hym as one of his owne sonnes. ¹² And Micah consecrated the Leuite, & the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah. ¹³ Then sayde Micah: Now I am sure that the Lord will be good vnto me, seing I haue a Leuite to my prieste.

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

Cross-References

Genesis 13:15
For all the lande whiche thou seest, wyll I geue vnto thee, and to thy seede for euer.

Genesis 13:17
Arise, and walke about in the lande, after the length of it, & after the breadth of it: for I wyll geue it vnto thee.

Genesis 17:7
Moreouer I wyll make my couenaunt betweene me and thee, & thy seede after thee, in their generations, by an euerlasting couenaut, yt I may be God vnto thee, and to thy seede after thee.

Genesis 17:16
And I wyll blesse her, and geue thee a sonne of her: yea, I wyll blesse her, and she shalbe [a mother] of nations, yea & kynges of people shall sprynge of her.

Genesis 17:17
But Abraham fell vppon his face, and laughed, and sayde in his heart: shall a chylde be borne vnto hym that is an hundreth yere olde? And shall Sara that is ninetie yere olde beare?

Genesis 17:21
But my couenaunt wyl I make with Isahac whiche Sara shall beare vnto thee, euen this tyme twelue moneth.

Genesis 23:4
I am a straunger and a foriner amongest you: geue me a possession to bury in with you, that I may bury my corse out of my sight.

Genesis 28:4
And geue the blessing of Abraham vnto thee, and to thy seede with thee, that thou mayest receaue to inherite ye lande wherein thou art a straunger, whiche God gaue vnto Abraham.

Genesis 48:4
Beholde, I wyll make thee fruiteful, and cause thee to multiplie, and wyll make a great number of people of thee, and wyll geue this lande vnto thy seede after thee vnto an euerlastyng possession.

Exodus 6:7
And I will take you for my people, and wilbe to you a God: And ye shall knowe that I am the Lord your God which bring you out from the burthens of the Egyptians.

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.