Shìshījì 17:7

7 Yóudà de Bólìhéng yǒu yī gè shàonián rén , shì Yóudà zú de Lìwèi rén , tā zaì nàli jìjū .

Shìshījì 17:7 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 17:7

And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah
As there were two Bethlehems, one in the tribe of Zebulun, ( Joshua 19:15 ) and another in the tribe of Judah, the place here designed, Judah is added to it, to distinguish it from the other:

of the family of Judah:
which refers either to the young man, who was by his father's side a Levite, and by his mother's side, as Jarchi thinks, of the tribe of Judah, which seems very probable, though the genealogies of families were not reckoned from the mother; wherefore he might be so called because he had lived chiefly in the tribe of Judah, and particularly at Bethlehem; but Kimchi, and several other Jewish commentators, refer this to the city of Bethlehem, that was of the tribe of Judah, family being put for the tribe; or belonged to the children of Judah; though one would think there was no need to have added this, since it was fully expressed before by calling it Bethlehemjudah; the former sense therefore seems best:

who was a Levite;
his father being, as before observed, of that tribe, though his mother might be of the tribe of Judah: and he sojourned there; that is, at Bethlehem; he was not a native, nor an inhabitant there, but a sojourner, it not being a Levitical city.

Shìshījì 17:7 In-Context

5 Zhè Mǐjiā yǒu le shén táng , yòu zhìzào Yǐfúdé hé jiā zhōng de shénxiàng , fēn paì tā yī gè érzi zuò jìsī .

6 Nàshí Yǐsèliè zhōng méiyǒu wáng , gèrén rènyì ér xíng .

7 Yóudà de Bólìhéng yǒu yī gè shàonián rén , shì Yóudà zú de Lìwèi rén , tā zaì nàli jìjū .

8 Zhè rén líkāi Yóudà de Bólìhéng chéng , yào zhǎo yī gè kĕ zhù de dìfang . xíng lù de shíhou , dào le Yǐfǎlián shān dì , zǒu dào Mǐjiā de jiā .

9 Mǐjiā wèn tā shuō , nǐ cóng nǎli lái . tā huídá shuō , cóng Yóudà de Bólìhéng lái . wǒ shì Lìwèi rén , yào zhǎo yī gè kĕ zhù de dìfang .