Chapter 17

¹ And there was a man of Mount Ephraim, and his name was Micah. ² And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred pieces of silver which thou tookest to thyself, and [about which] thou cursedst me, and spokest in my ears, behold, the silver [is] with me; I took it: and his mother said, Blessed [be] my son of the Lord. ³ And he restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother; and his mother said, I had wholly consecrated the money to the Lord out of my hand for my son, to make a graven and a molten [image], and now I will restore it to thee. ⁴ But he returned the silver to his mother, and his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to a silversmith, and he made it a graven and a molten image; and it was in the house of Micah. ⁵ And the house of Micah [was] to him the house of God, and he made an ephod and teraphim, and he consecrated one of his sons, and he became to him a priest.

Jdg 17:1-5

⁶ And in those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

Jdg 17:6

⁷ And there was a young man in Bethlehem of the tribe of Judah, and he [was] a Levite, and he was sojourning there. ⁸ And the man departed from Bethlehem the city of Judah to sojourn in whatever place he might find; and he came as far as Mount Ephraim, and to the house of Micah to accomplish his journey. ⁹ And Micah said to him, Whence comest thou? and he said to him, I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I go to sojourn in any place I may find. ¹⁰ And Micah said to him, Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest; and I will give thee ten pieces of silver by the year, and a change of raiment, and thy living. ¹¹ And the Levite went and began to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons. ¹² And Micah consecrated the Levite, and he became to him a priest, and he was in the house of Micah. ¹³ And Micah said, Now I know that the Lord will do me good, because a Levite has become my priest.

Jdg 17:7-13