So after he returned the silver to his mother, she took two hundred shekels[a] of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who used them to make the idol.(A) And it was put in Micah’s house.

Now this man Micah had a shrine,(B) and he made an ephod(C) and some household gods(D) and installed(E) one of his sons as his priest.(F) In those days Israel had no king;(G) everyone did as they saw fit.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 17:4 That is, about 5 pounds or about 2.3 kilograms

Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.

And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

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