Judges 17:1-6

New American Standard Bible 1995

Micah’s Idolatry

17 Now there was a man of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah. ² He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver which were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse ^[a]in my hearing, behold, the silver is with me; I took it.” And his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the Lord.” ³ He then returned the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I wholly dedicate the silver from my hand to the Lord for my son ^(A)to make a graven image and a molten image; now therefore, I will return ^[b]them to you.” ⁴ So when he returned the silver to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith who made ^[c]them into a graven image and a molten image, and ^[d]they were in the house of Micah. ⁵ And the man Micah had a ^[e](B)shrine and he made an ^(C)ephod and ^[f](D)household idols and ^[g]consecrated one of his sons, ^(E)that he might become his priest. ⁶ In those days ^(F)there was no king in Israel; ^(G)every man did what was right in his own eyes.