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Jonathan (son of Gershom)

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Judges 18:30 names him “Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses”: the children of Dan set up for themselves the engraved image, and he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.

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JDG 18:30, engwebp
³⁰The children of Dan set up for themselves the engraved image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.
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JDG 18:31, engwebp
³¹So they set up for themselves Micah’s engraved image which he made, and it remained all the time that God’s house was in Shiloh.
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Unresolved interpretation: The young Levite who became Micah’s priest and Jonathan of Judges 18:30

Judges 17:7–13 has the young Levite of Bethlehem Judah come to the house of Micah and become his priest. At 18:19–20 the five men say to him, “go with us. Be a father and a priest to us.” The priest’s heart is glad, and he takes the ephod, the teraphim, and the engraved image, and goes with the people. Neither edition gives the young man a name.
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- JDG 17:7–13, engwebp
  ⁷There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he lived there.
  ⁸The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to live where he could find a place, and he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, as he traveled.
  ⁹Micah said to him, “Where did you come from?” He said to him, “I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I am looking for a place to live.”
  ¹⁰Micah said to him, “Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your food.” So the Levite went in.
  ¹¹The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons.
  ¹²Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
  ¹³Then Micah said, “Now I know that the LORD will do good to me, since I have a Levite as my priest.”
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- JDG 18:14–20, engwebp
  ¹⁴Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered and said to their brothers, “Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a carved image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do.”
  ¹⁵They went over there and came to the house of the young Levite man, even to the house of Micah, and asked him how he was doing.
  ¹⁶The six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.
  ¹⁷The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image; and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.
  ¹⁸When these went into Micah’s house, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
  ¹⁹They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us. Be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”
  ²⁰The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, the teraphim, and the engraved image, and went with the people.
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Judges 18:30 says, “Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.”
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- JDG 18:30, engwebp
  ³⁰The children of Dan set up for themselves the engraved image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.
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Judges 17:7–18:20 gives no name to the young Levite who became Micah’s priest and went with the children of Dan, and 18:30 names Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, as a priest to the tribe of the Danites. Neither edition says that they are one man, or that they are two. This collection gives the unnamed young man no entry, records Jonathan as 18:30 gives him, and does not decide whether they are one man.

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Gershom (son of Moses) — Father of — Jonathan (son of Gershom)

Evidence: Judges 18:30
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The children of Dan set up for themselves the engraved image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.

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Current wording: Judges 18:30 names him “Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses”: the children of Dan set up for themselves the engraved image, and he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.
Cited evidence: JDG 18:30, engwebp / JDG 18:31, engwebp
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