And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.
He told them, 'This is how Micah has treated me, he hired me to be his priest.'
The Levite is explaining to the Danites that Micah employed him as a personal priest.
📚 Historical Context
In the period of the Judges, Israel had no central king, and people often acted on their own impulses, leading to widespread idolatry and moral disorder. Micah, a man from the tribe of Ephraim, had stolen silver from his mother, used it to make an idol, and hired a young Levite as his personal priest to serve in his private shrine. When spies from the tribe of Dan encountered this priest, he described his arrangement with Micah, illustrating the common practice of unauthorized worship during this chaotic era.
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