1. Judges 17:7 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What was a sojourner?

Judges 17:7 (ESV)

7 Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.

A sojourner, in contrast to one native born, was a non-native resident of a town or region. Judges 19:16–30 indicates that sojourners were often viewed with suspicion.