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The Spirit of the Times: Bad Priests, Bad People
Micah’s Idol

17 There was a man from the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah. He said to his mother, “You know that eleven hundred shekels of silver[a] which were taken from you, about which you spoke a curse that I heard—Look! I have the silver. I took it.”

His mother said, “May my son be blessed by the Lord.”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 17:2 The Hebrew text reads one thousand one hundred ___ of silver without specifying a unit of measure. It probably refers to a collection of scrap silver that weighed eleven hundred shekels. Coins were not yet in use at this time.