Micah’s Idols

17 There was a man named Micah who lived in the ·mountains [hill country] of Ephraim. ² He said to his mother, “I heard you speak a curse [^Cuttered against the thief] about the ·twenty-eight pounds [^Leleven hundred pieces] of silver that were taken from you. I have the silver with me; I took it.”

His mother said, “The Lord bless you, my son [^Cfor confessing the crime]!”