Judges 18:4

He told them what Micah had done for him, saying, ¹  “He hired me and I became his priest.”

Jud 17:10; Pr 28:21; Isa 56:11; Eze 13:19; Ho 4:8,9; Mal 1:10; Joh 10:12,13; Ac 8:18-21; Ac 20:33; 1Ti 3:3; Tit 1:11; 2Pe 2:3,14,15

¹ tn Heb “He said to them, ‘Such and such Micah has done for me.’” Though the statement is introduced and presented, at least in part, as a direct quotation (note especially “for me”), the phrase “such and such” appears to be the narrator’s condensed version of what the Levite really said.