Judges 17

17^*And there was a man of ^amount Ephraim, whose name was ^bMicah. ²And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, ^cBlessed be thou of the Lord, my son. ³And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the Lord from my hand for my son, to make ^da graven image and ^ea molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee. ⁴Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to ^fthe founder, who made thereof ^da graven image and ^ea molten image: and they were in the house of ^bMicah. ⁵And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ^gephod, and ^hteraphim, and ^†consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. ⁶In ⁱthose days there was no king in Israel, ^kbut every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

⁷And there was a young man out of ^lBeth-lehem-judah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there. ⁸And the man departed out of the city from Beth-lehem-judah to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to ^amount Ephraim to the house of Micah, ^†as he journeyed. ⁹And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Beth-lehem-judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place. ¹⁰And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, ^mand be unto me a ⁿfather and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by ^othe year, and ^||a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in. ¹¹And the Levite ^pwas content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons. ¹²And Micah ^qconsecrated the Levite; and the young man ^rbecame his priest, and was in the house of Micah. ¹³Then said Micah, Now know I that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.