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Micah and the Levite

 There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. 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 ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it.” And his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the Lord.” ³ And he restored the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother. And his mother said, “I dedicate the silver to the Lord from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a metal image. Now therefore I will restore it to you.” ⁴ So when he restored the money to his mother, his mother took 200 pieces of silver and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into a carved image and a metal image. And it was in the house of Micah. ⁵ And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household gods, and ordained^[a] one of his sons, who became his priest. ⁶ In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

⁷ Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there. ⁸ And the man departed from the town of Bethlehem in Judah to sojourn where he could find a place. And as he journeyed, he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah. ⁹ And Micah said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I am a Levite of Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to sojourn where I may find a place.” ¹⁰ And 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 and a suit of clothes and your living.” And the Levite went in. ¹¹ And the Levite was content to dwell with the man, and the young man became to him like one of his sons. ¹² And Micah ordained the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah. ¹³ Then Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will prosper me, because I have a Levite as priest.”

Footnotes:

1. Judges 17:5 Hebrew filled the hand of; also verse 12

Cross references:

1. Judges 17:1 : ver. 8; ch. 18:2; See Josh. 24:33
2. Judges 17:2 : Ruth 3:10; 1 Sam. 15:13
3. Judges 17:3 : [Ex. 20:4]
4. Judges 17:3 : [Lev. 19:4]
5. Judges 17:4 : [Isa. 46:6]
6. Judges 17:5 : ch. 8:27; 18:14, 17; See Ex. 28:6-35
7. Judges 17:5 : [Gen. 31:19; Hos. 3:4]
8. Judges 17:5 : ver. 12; [1 Kgs. 13:33]
9. Judges 17:6 : ch. 18:1; 19:1; 21:25
10. Judges 17:6 : [Deut. 12:8]
11. Judges 17:7 : ch. 19:1; Ruth 1:1, 2; Mic. 5:2; Matt. 2:1, 5, 6
12. Judges 17:8 : See Josh. 24:33
13. Judges 17:10 : ch. 18:19
14. Judges 17:11 : [Ex. 2:21]
15. Judges 17:12 : ver. 5
16. Judges 17:12 : [ch. 18:30]