Matthew Poole and continuators on Judges 17:12

12 And Micah consecrated the Levite , and the young man became his priest , and was in the house of Micah.

To be a Priest, for which he thought a Consecration necessary, as knowing that the Levites were no less excluded from the Priests office than the people.

Instead of his Son, whom he had Consecrated for want of a [illegible: 1+ letters]itter, v. 6. but now seems to restrain him from the exercise of that Office, and to devolve it wholly upon the Levite, who was nearer akin to it.