Then said Micah, Now know I that Yahweh will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
The writer did not call the young Levite who came to live with Micah a priest. He was evidently not a descendant of Aaron, though he was from the tribe of Levi. The Levites were, of course, living throughout Israel having received no tribal allotment of land but only cities within the territories of the other tribes. This young man had been living in Bethlehem of Judah, which was not a Levitical city (Judges 17:7). His disregard for God’s will is obvious in his choice to live somewhere other than where God told the Levites to live (cf. Judges 17:6).