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Selected Verse: Judges 17:13 - Strong Concordance

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Jud 17:13 Strong Concordance Then said [0559] Micah [04318], Now know [03045] I that the LORD [03068] will do me good [03190], seeing I have a Levite [03881] to my priest [03548].
  King James Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Now know I that the Lord will do me good--The removal of his son, followed by the installation of this Levite into the priestly office, seems to have satisfied his conscience, that by what he deemed the orderly ministrations of religion he would prosper. This expression of his hope evinces the united influence of ignorance and superstition.
 
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22 But if ye say [0559] unto me, We trust [0982] in the LORD [03068] our God [0430]: is not that he, whose high places [01116] and whose altars [04196] Hezekiah [02396] hath taken away [05493], and hath said [0559] to Judah [03063] and Jerusalem [03389], Ye shall worship [07812] before [06440] this altar [04196] in Jerusalem [03389]?