Judges 17:1
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
American King James Version (AKJV)
And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
American Standard Version (ASV)
And there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Now there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim named Micah.
Webster's Revision
And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
World English Bible
There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
English Revised Version (ERV)
And there was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
Clarke's Judges 17:1 Bible Commentary
And there was a man of Mount Ephraim - It is extremely difficult to fix the chronology of this and the following transactions. Some think them to be here in their natural order; others, that they happened in the time of Joshua, or immediately after the ancients who outlived Joshua. All that can be said with certainty is this, that they happened when there was no king in Israel; i.e., about the time of the Judges, or in some time of the anarchy, Judges 17:6.
Barnes's Judges 17:1 Bible Commentary
See the introduction to the Book of Judges. The only point of contact with the preceding history of Samson is, that we are still concerned with the tribe of Dan. See Judges 18:1-2, note. Josephus combines in one narrative what we read here and in Judges 1:34, and places it, with the story in Judges 18-21, immediately after the death of Joshua.
Wesley's Judges 17:1 Bible Commentary
17:1 There was, &c. - The things mentioned here, and in the following chapters, did not happen in the order in which they are put; but much sooner, even presently after the death of the elders that over - lived Joshua, as appears, because Phinehas the son of Eleazar was priest at this time, chap. 20:28 , who must have been about 350 years old, if this had been done after Samson's death.
