Judges
17
- Now a man named Micah from the hill country
of Ephraim
- said to his mother, "The eleven hundred
shekels of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter
a curse -- I have that silver with me; I took it." Then his mother said,
"The LORD bless you, my son!"
- When he returned the eleven hundred shekels
of silver to his mother, she said, "I solemnly consecrate my silver to
the LORD for my son to make a carved image and a cast idol. I will give it
back to you."
- So he returned the silver to his mother,
and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith,
who made them into the image and the idol. And they were put in Micah's house.
- Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he
made an ephod and some idols and installed one of his sons as his priest.
- In those days Israel had no king; everyone
did as he saw fit.
- A young Levite from Bethlehem in Judah,
who had been living within the clan of Judah,
- left that town in search of some other place
to stay. On his way he came to Micah's house in the hill country of Ephraim.
- Micah asked him, "Where are you from?"
"I'm a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah," he said, "and I'm looking
for a place to stay."
- Then Micah said to him, "Live with
me and be my father and priest, and I'll give you ten shekels of silver a
year, your clothes and your food."
- So the Levite agreed to live with him, and
the young man was to him like one of his sons.
- Then Micah installed the Levite, and the
young man became his priest and lived in his house.
- And Micah said, "Now I know that the
LORD will be good to me, since this Levite has become my priest."
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