Passage Research
Judges 17 — Sermon Preparation
Below is a research summary for Judges 17, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 13
- verses
- 192 / 76
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 4
- classic sermon excerpts
- 2
- preachers & commentators
Judges 17 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| מִיכָה | Mîykâh | H4318 | 7 | Micah |
| כֶּסֶף | keçeph | H3701 | 7 | silver, pale |
| אֵם | ʼêm | H517 | 6 | mother |
| לֵוִיִּי | Lêvîyîy | H3881 | 6 | Levite |
| בֵּית לֶחֶם | Bêyth Lechem | H1035 | 3 | Beth-Lechem |
| מִיכָהוּ | Mîykâhûw | H4319 | 2 | Mikehu |
| גּוּר | gûwr | H1481 | 3 | turn, sojourn |
How preachers through history handled this text
4 public-domain excerpts on Judges 17, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Micah thought it was a sign of God's favour to him and his images, that a Levite should come to his door. Thus those who please themselves with their own delusions, if Providence unexpectedly bring any thing to their hands that further them in their evil way, are apt from thence to think that God is pleased with them.”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Judges 17:7–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Bethlehem 1 — Judg 17:7
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