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And he said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, and about which you also pronounced a curse in my hearing,[a] are with me; I took it.” And his mother said, “Blessed be my son by Yahweh.” He returned the eleven hundred pieces[b] of silver to his mother, and his mother thought, “I will certainly consecrate to Yahweh the pieces[c] of silver from my hand for my son to make an idol of cast metal; now then, I will return them[d] to you.” When he returned the pieces[e] of silver to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces[f] of silver, and she gave it to the smith, and he made it into an idol of cast metal; and it was in the house of Micah.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 17:2 Literally “In my ears”
  2. Judges 17:3 Hebrew “piece”
  3. Judges 17:3 Hebrew “piece”
  4. Judges 17:3 Hebrew “it”
  5. Judges 17:4 Hebrew “piece”
  6. Judges 17:4 Hebrew “piece”