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Jdg 17:7 — And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who [was] a Levite, and he sojourned there.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Beth-lehem-judah		Jdg 19:1,2; Gen 35:19; Jos 19:15; Rth 1:1,2; Mic 5:2; Mat 2:1,5,6
of the family		That is, of the tribe of Judah by his mother; and of that of Levi by his father.

Correlating Passages

Beth-lehem-judah

	Jdg 19:1	And it came to pass in those days, when [there was] no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah.
	Jdg 19:2	And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to Bethlehemjudah, and was there four whole months.
	Gen 35:19	And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which [is] Bethlehem.
	Jos 19:15	And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
	Rth 1:1	Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
	Rth 1:2	And the name of the man [was] Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehemjudah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.
	Mic 5:2	But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, [though] thou be little among the thousands of Judah, [yet] out of thee shall he come forth unto me [that is] to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth [have been] from of old, from everlasting.
	Mat 2:1	Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
	Mat 2:5	And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet,
	Mat 2:6	And thou Bethlehem, [in] the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.

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