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Judges 17

Micah’s Idols

Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim

Micah’s Idols

There was a man named Micah, who lived in the hill country of Ephraim.

said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekelsa of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse — I have that silver with me; I took it.”
Then his mother said, “The Lord bless you, my son!”

One day he said to his mother, “I heard you place a curse on the person who stole 1,100 piecesa of silver from you. Well, I have the money. I was the one who took it.”
“The LORD bless you for admitting it,” his mother replied.

When he returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I solemnly consecrate my silver to the Lord for my son to make an image overlaid with silver. I will give it back to you.”

He returned the money to her, and she said, “I now dedicate these silver coins to the LORD. In honor of my son, I will have an image carved and an idol cast.”

So after he returned the silver to his mother, she took two hundred shekelsb of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who used them to make the idol. And it was put in Micah’s house.

So when he returned the money to his mother, she took 200 silver coins and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into an image and an idol. And these were placed in Micah’s house.

Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household gods and installed one of his sons as his priest.

Micah set up a shrine for the idol, and he made a sacred ephod and some household idols. Then he installed one of his sons as his personal priest.

In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.

In those days Israel had no king; all the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes.

A young Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, who had been living within the clan of Judah,

One day a young Levite, who had been living in Bethlehem in Judah, arrived in that area.

left that town in search of some other place to stay. On his wayc he came to Micah’s house in the hill country of Ephraim.

He had left Bethlehem in search of another place to live, and as he traveled, he came to the hill country of Ephraim. He happened to stop at Micah’s house as he was traveling through.

Micah asked him, “Where are you from?”
“I’m a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah,” he said, “and I’m looking for a place to stay.”

“Where are you from?” Micah asked him.
He replied, “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I am looking for a place to live.”

Then Micah said to him, “Live with me and be my father and priest, and I’ll give you ten shekelsd of silver a year, your clothes and your food.”

“Stay here with me,” Micah said, “and you can be a father and priest to me. I will give you ten pieces of silverb a year, plus a change of clothes and your food.”

So the Levite agreed to live with him, and the young man became like one of his sons to him.

The Levite agreed to this, and the young man became like one of Micah’s sons.

Then Micah installed the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in his house.

So Micah installed the Levite as his personal priest, and he lived in Micah’s house.

And Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will be good to me, since this Levite has become my priest.”

“I know the LORD will bless me now,” Micah said, “because I have a Levite serving as my priest.”

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