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(A) This was before kings ruled Israel, so all the Israelites did whatever they thought was right.

7-8 One day a young Levite came to Micah's house in the hill country of Ephraim. He had been staying with one of the clans of Judah in Bethlehem, but he had left Bethlehem to find a new place to live[a] where he could be a priest.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 17.7,8 place to live: The people of the Levi tribe did not have a large area of land like the other tribes.
  2. 17.7,8 to find … priest: Or “and was on his way to find a new place to live.”

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