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Micah and the Levite
There was a man in the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah.
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So when he returned the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into an idol of cast metal, and it was in the house of Micah.
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This man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and teraphim and installed one of his sons, who became his priest.
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This man left the town of Bethlehem in Judah to live wherever he could find a place. He came to the house of Micah in the hill country of Ephraim to carry on his work.
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Micah said to him, “From where do you come?” He replied, “I am a Levite of Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to live wherever I can find a place.”
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Then Micah said to him, “Stay with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, a set of clothes, and your living.”
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So Micah installed the Levite, and the young man became his priest and was in the house of Micah.
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Then Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will prosper me because the Levite has become my priest.”
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So the Danites sent five valiant men from the whole number of their clan, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to explore it, and they said to them, “Go, explore the land.” When they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they stayed there.
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While they were at Micah’s house, they recognized the voice of the young Levite, so they went over and asked him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?”
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He said to them, “Micah did such and such for me, and he hired me, and I have become his priest.”
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From there they passed on to the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah.
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So they turned in that direction and came to the house of the young Levite at the home of Micah and greeted him.
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When the men went into Micah’s house and took the idol of cast metal, the ephod, and the teraphim, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
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When they were some distance from the home of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah’s house were called out, and they overtook the Danites.
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They shouted to the Danites, who turned around and said to Micah, “What is the matter that you come with such a company?”
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Then the Danites went their way. When Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his home.
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The Danites Settle in Laish
The Danites, having taken what Micah had made and the priest who belonged to him, came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, put them to the sword, and burned down the city.
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So they maintained as their own Micah’s idol that he had made, as long as the house of God was at Shiloh.
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Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,
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and the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal became the father of Micah.
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The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz.
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and the son of Jonathan was Merib-baal; and Merib-baal became the father of Micah.
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The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tahrea, and Ahaz;
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The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief and Isshiah the second.