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Micah’s Idols
There was a man named Micah, who lived in the hill country of Ephraim.
There was a man named Micah, who lived in the hill country of Ephraim.
Micah’s Idolatry
Now there was a man of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah.
Now there was a man of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah.
He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver which were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse in my hearing, behold, the silver is with me; I took it.” And his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the LORD.”
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.”
He then returned the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I wholly dedicate the silver from my hand to the LORD for my son to make a graven image and a molten image; now therefore, I will return them to you.”
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.
So when he returned the silver to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith who made them into a graven image and a molten image, and they were in the house of Micah.
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.
And the man Micah had a shrine and he made an ephod and household idols and consecrated one of his sons, that he might become his priest.
In those days Israel had no king; all the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes.
In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.
One day a young Levite, who had been living in Bethlehem in Judah, arrived in that area.
Now there was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he was staying there.
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.
Then the man departed from the city, from Bethlehem in Judah, to stay 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.
“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.”
He replied, “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I am looking for a place to live.”
Micah said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to stay wherever I may find a place.”
Micah then said to him, “Dwell with me and be a father and a priest to me, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, a suit of clothes, and your maintenance.” So the Levite went in.
The Levite agreed to this, and the young man became like one of Micah’s sons.
The Levite agreed to live with the man, and the young man became to him like one of his sons.
So Micah installed the Levite as his personal priest, and he lived in Micah’s house.
So Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in the house of Micah.