Judges 17:3-5

Expanded Bible

³ Micah gave the ·twenty-eight pounds [^Leleven hundred pieces] of silver to his mother. Then she said, “I will ·give [dedicate] this silver [^Lfrom my hand] to the Lord. ·I will have my son make [or For the benefit of my son I will make] ·an idol and a statue [a carved image and a cast-metal image; or a carved image overlaid with silver]. So I will give the silver back to you.”

⁴ When he gave the silver back to his mother, she took about ·five pounds [^Ltwo hundred pieces of silver] and gave it to a ·silversmith [or idol-maker; Acts 19:24]. With it he made an ·idol and a statue [or carved image overlaid with silver; ^Can abomination and violation of the law; Deut. 27:15], which stood in Micah’s house. ⁵ Micah had a ·special holy place [shrine], and he made a ·holy vest [ephod] and some ·household idols [^Lteraphim; Gen. 31:19]. Then Micah ·chose [ordained; installed; or paid; ^Lfilled the hand of] one of his sons to be his priest.