17:1 Now there was a man of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah.
17:2 And he said to his mother, “The 1,100 pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse and also spoke it in my hearing, behold, the silver is with me; I took it.” And his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the LORD.”
17:3 He then returned the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I wholly consecrate the silver from my hand to the LORD for my son to make a carved image and a cast metal image; so now I will return ①them to you.”
▷ ①Lit it
17:4 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 ①them into a carved image and a cast metal image, and ②they were in the house of Micah.
▷ ①Lit it ②Lit it was
17:5 And the man Micah had a ①shrine and he made an ephod and ②household idols, and ③consecrated one of his sons, so that he might become his priest.
▷ ①Lit house of gods ②Heb teraphim ③Lit filled the hand of
17:6 In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
17:7 Now there was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he was ①staying there.
▷ ①Or sojourning
17:8 Then the man left the city, Bethlehem in Judah, to ①stay wherever he would find a place; and as he made his journey, he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah.
▷ ①Or sojourn
17:9 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 ①stay wherever I may find a place.”
▷ ①Or sojourn
17:10 Micah then said to him, “Stay with me and be a father and a priest to me, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, a supply of clothing, and your sustenance.” So the Levite went in.
17:11 The Levite agreed to live with the man, and the young man became to him like one of his sons.
17:12 So Micah ①consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest and ②lived in the house of Micah.
▷ ①Lit filled the hand of ②Lit was
17:13 Then Micah said, “Now I know that the LORD will prosper me, because I have a Levite as a priest.”