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Micah’s Idolatry
Now there was a man from the mountains of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
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Thus he returned the silver to his mother. Then his mother took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to the silversmith, and he made it into a carved image and a molded image; and they were in the house of Micah.
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The man Micah had a shrine, and made an ephod and household idols; and he consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
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The man departed from the city of Bethlehem in Judah to stay wherever he could find a place. Then he came to the mountains of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.
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And Micah said to him, “Where do you come from?” So he said to him, “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I am on my way to find a place to stay.”
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Micah said to him, “Dwell with me, and be a father and a priest to me, and I will give you ten shekels of silver per year, a suit of clothes, and your sustenance.” So the Levite went in.
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So Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and lived in the house of Micah.
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Then Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will be good to me, since I have a Levite as priest!”
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The Danites Adopt Micah’s Idolatry
In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking an inheritance for itself to dwell in; for until that day their inheritance among the tribes of Israel had not fallen to them.
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So the children of Dan sent five men of their family from their territory, men of valor from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and search it. They said to them, “Go, search the land.” So they went to the mountains of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
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While they were at the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young Levite. They turned aside and said to him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What do you have here?”
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He said to them, “Thus and so Micah did for me. He has hired me, and I have become his priest.”
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And they passed from there to the mountains of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.
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So they turned aside there, and came to the house of the young Levite man—to the house of Micah—and greeted him.
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When these went into Micah’s house and took the carved image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molded image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
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When they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah’s house gathered together and overtook the children of Dan.
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And they called out to the children of Dan. So they turned around and said to Micah, “What ails you, that you have gathered such a company?”
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Then the children of Dan went their way. And when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.
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Danites Settle in Laish
So they took the things Micah had made, and the priest who had belonged to him, and went to Laish, to a people quiet and secure; and they struck them with the edge of the sword and burned the city with fire.
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So they set up for themselves Micah’s carved image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
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Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,
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The son of Jonathan was Merib-Baal, and Merib-Baal begot Micah.
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The sons of Micah were Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz.
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Bakbakkar, Heresh, Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Micah, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph;
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The son of Jonathan was Merib-Baal, and Merib-Baal begot Micah.
