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go right into the service. Record it at free chapel. I believe it's going to

bless you today. I'm reading from Judges chapter 17. I'll begin reading with

verse 6, Judges chapter 17. In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone

did what was right in his own eyes. That's a dangerous time in a nation. When

everybody does what was right and we don't have a king named Jesus. And now

there was a young man from Bethlehem in Judea. Where's he from? Bethlehem.

Of the family of Judah, notice it mentions his family. He was a Levi, which means

he's in the lineage of priest and he started staying there. The man departed

from the city of Bethlehem of Judea to stay wherever they could find a place and

then he came to the mountains of Ephraim in the house of Micah as he journeyed. Some

translations say, so journeyed. It's an interesting word. Micah said to him, where do

you come from? She said to him, I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judea. And I'm on my way

somewhere else is what he's saying to find a place to stay. Micah said to him,

dwell with me. Dwell with me and be a father and a priest to me. And I will give you ten

shekels of silver per year, a suit of clothes and your substance, shelter, food. So the

Levite went in. The Levite, notice a big, big word, was content. He was content to dwell

with the man. And the young man came like one, became like one of his sons to him. So

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