Judges 17:7
What does Judges 17:7 mean?
A plain-English look at Judges 17:7 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And there was a young man out of Beth–lehem–judah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Now there was a young man living in Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah and a Levite, who was not a townsman of the place.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And there is a young man of Beth-Lehem-Judah, of the family of Judah, and he <FI>is<Fi> a Levite, and he <FI>is<Fi> a sojourner there.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752There was also another young man of Bethlehem Juda, of the kindred thereof: and he was a Levite, and dwelt there.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And there was a young man out of Bethlehem-Judah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
Context
v.6In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
v.7This passage
v.8And the man departed out of the city, out of Beth-lehem-judah, to sojourn where he could find a place, and he came to the hill-country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Matthew 2:1
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judæa in the days of Herod the king, behold, Wise-men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,
- Matthew 2:5
And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judæa: for thus it is written through the prophet,
- Judges 19:1
And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah.
- Genesis 35:19
And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Beth-lehem).
- Ruth 1:1
And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
- Micah 5:2
But thou, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, which art little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall one come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.