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I took it.” Then his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the LORD!”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I wholly dedicate the silver to the LORD for my son’s benefit, to make a graven image and a molten idol. Therefore I will now return it to you.”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of Micah.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household gods, and ordained one of his sons, who became his priest.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And there was a young Levite from Bethlehem in Judah who had been residing within the clan of Judah.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">This man left the city of Bethlehem in Judah to settle where he could find a place. And as he traveled, he came to Micah’s house in the hill country of Ephraim.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“Where are you from?” Micah asked him. “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah,” he replied, “and I am on my way to settle wherever I can find a place.”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“Stay with me,” Micah said to him, “and be my father and priest, and I will give you ten shekels of silver per year, a suit of clothes, and your provisions.” So the Levite went in<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">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.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">and agreed to stay with him, and the young man became like a son to Micah.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And the Levite was content to dwell with the man, and the young man became to him like one of his sons.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Micah ordained the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in his house.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And Micah ordained the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then Micah said, “Now I know that the LORD will be good to me, because a Levite has become my priest.”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then Micah said, “Now I know that the LORD will prosper me, because I have a Levite as priest.”</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%">This text of God's Word has been dedicated to the public domain.</td><td class="copy" width="50%">ESV Text Edition: 2016. 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