The narrator repeats “of Bethlehem in Judah three times in verses Judges 17:7–9. This is likely further evidence that the book of Judges is not a pro-Davidic/anti-Saulide narrative.1
The narrator repeats “of Bethlehem in Judah three times in verses Judges 17:7–9. This is likely further evidence that the book of Judges is not a pro-Davidic/anti-Saulide narrative.1
7 Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.