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 1in 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 ato make a graven image and a molten image; now therefore, I will return 1them 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 1them into a graven image and a molten image, and 2they were in the house of Micah.

5 And the man Micah had a 1ashrine and he made an bephod and 2chousehold idols and 3consecrated one of his sons, dthat he might become his priest.

6 In those days athere was no king in Israel; bevery man did what was right in his own eyes.