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Micah's Idolatry

¹ 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 ^(F1)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 ^(C1)to make a graven image and a molten image; now therefore, I will return ^(F1)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 ^(F1)them into a graven image and a molten image, and ^(F2)they were in the house of Micah.⁵ And the man Micah had a ^(F1)(C1)shrine and he made an ^(C2)ephod and ^(F2)(C3)household idols and ^(F3)consecrated one of his sons, ^(C4)that he might become his priest.⁶ In those days ^(C1)there was no king in Israel; ^(C2)every man did what was right in his own eyes.

⁷ Now there was a young man from ^(C1)Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he was ^(F1)staying there.⁸ Then the man departed from the city, from Bethlehem in Judah, to ^(F1)stay wherever he might find a place; and as he made his journey, he came to the ^(C1)hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah.⁹ Micah said to him, "Where do you come from?" And he said to him, "I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to ^(F1)stay wherever I may find a place."¹⁰ Micah then said to him, "Dwell with me and be ^(C1)a father and a priest to me, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, a suit of clothes, and your maintenance." So the Levite went in.¹¹ The Levite agreed to live with the man, and the young man became to him like one of his sons.¹² So Micah ^(F1)consecrated the Levite, and the young man ^(C1)became his priest and ^(F2)lived in the house of Micah.¹³ Then Micah said, "Now I know that the LORD will prosper me, seeing I have a Levite as priest."