Judges 17:5-8

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^4-5 So his mother took a fifth of it to a silversmith, and the idol he made from it was placed in Micah’s shrine. Micah had many idols in his collection, also an ephod and some teraphim, and he installed one of his sons as the priest. ⁶ (For in those days Israel had no king, so everyone did whatever he wanted to—whatever seemed right in his own eyes.)

^7-8 One day a young priest^[a] from the town of Bethlehem, in Judah, arrived in that area of Ephraim, looking for a good place to live. He happened to stop at Micah’s house as he was traveling through.