Judges 17:1-8 ▼

1 Now there was a man of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah.

2 He said to his mother, “The 1,100 pieces of silver which were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse and spoke of it in my hearing, behold, the silver is with me; it was I who took it.” And his mother said, “Blessed be my son by Yahweh.”

3 And he then returned the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I wholly set apart the silver from my hand as holy to Yahweh for my son to make a graven image and a molten image; so now I will return them to you.”

4 So he returned the silver to his mother, and his mother took 200 pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith. And he made them into a graven image and a molten image, and they were in the house of Micah.

5 And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household idols and ordained one of his sons, and he became his priest.

6 In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.

7 And there was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he was sojourning there.

8 Then the man went from the city, from Bethlehem in Judah, to sojourn wherever he might find a place; and as he made his journey, he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah.