Judges 17:1-6

New American Standard Bible

Micah’s Idolatry

17 Now there was a man of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah. ² And he said to his mother, “The 1,100 pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse and also spoke it in my hearing, behold, the silver is with me; I took it.” And his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the Lord.” ³ He then returned the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I wholly consecrate the silver from my hand to the Lord for my son ^(A)to make a carved image and a cast metal image; so now I will return ^[a]them to you.” ⁴ 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 ^[b]them into a carved image and a cast metal image, and ^[c]they were in the house of Micah. ⁵ And the man Micah had a ^[d](B)shrine and he made an ^(C)ephod and ^[e](D)household idols, and ^[f]consecrated one of his sons, ^(E)so that he might become his priest. ⁶ In those days ^(F)there was no king in Israel; ^(G)everyone did what was right in his own eyes.