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Judges 17:13

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

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The Twelve Tribes of IsraelCanaan divided among the twelve tribes of Israel after the conquest under Joshua.

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Bethlehem was a town in the hill country of Judah, associated here with the Levite Micah hired as his personal priest. The Levite’s origin lends Micah’s private shrine an appearance of religious legitimacy, exposing his mistaken confidence that God would therefore prosper him.

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Judges 17:13 mentions Bethlehem.

Bethlehem · Berthold Werner

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