There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way to death.
Judges 17:13 - New Revised Standard Version Then Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will prosper me, because the Levite has become my priest.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then said Micah, Now I know that the Lord will favor me, since I have a Levite to be my priest. American Standard Version (1901) Then said Micah, Now know I that Jehovah will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest. Common English Bible And Micah said to himself, Now I know that the LORD will give me good things, because a Levite has become my priest. Catholic Public Domain Version saying: "Now I know that God will be good to me, since I have a priest from the stock of the Levites." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Now I know God will do me good, since I have a priest of the race of the Levites. |
There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way to death.
He feeds on ashes; a deluded mind has led him astray, and he cannot save himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a fraud?”
He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.
They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, an hour is coming when those who kill you will think that by doing so they are offering worship to God.
“Indeed, I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things against the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
So Micah installed the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking for itself a territory to live in; for until then no territory among the tribes of Israel had been allotted to them.
He replied, “You take my gods that I made, and the priest, and go away, and what have I left? How then can you ask me, ‘What is the matter?’ ”