Micah’s Idolatry

17 There was a man from the hill country of Ephraim; his name was Micah. ² 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.” ³ 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.”