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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Judges 17 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/judges/17.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/judges/17-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</a> > Judges 17</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../judges/16.htm" title="Judges 16">◄</a> Judges 17 <a href="../judges/18.htm" title="Judges 18">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/judges/17-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Micah’s Idolatry<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And there was a man of mount Ephraim, and his name was Michaias. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred pieces of silver which thou tookest of thyself, and <i>about which</i> thou cursedst me, and spokest in my ears, behold, the silver <i>is</i> with me; I took it: and his mother said, Blessed <i>be</i> my son of the Lord. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And he restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother; and his mother said, I had wholly consecrated the money to the Lord out of my hand for my son, to make a graven and a molten <i>image</i>, and now I will restore it to thee. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But he returned the silver to his mother, and his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to a silversmith, and he made it a graven and a molten image; and it was in the house of Michaias. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the house of Michaias <i>was</i> to him the house of God, and he made an ephod and theraphin, and he consecrated one of his sons, and he became to him a priest. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And in those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own eyes.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And there was a young man in Bethleem of the tribe of Juda, and he <i>was</i> a Levite, and he was sojourning there. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And the man departed from Bethleem the city of Juda to sojourn in whatever place he might find; and he came as far as mount Ephraim, and to the house of Michaias to accomplish his journey. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And Michaias said to him, Whence comest thou? and he said to him, I am a Levite of Bethleem Juda, and I go to sojourn in any place I may find. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And Michaias said to him, Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest; and I will give thee ten pieces of silver by the year, and a change of raiment, and thy living. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And the Levite went and began to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And Michaias consecrated the Levite, and he became to him a priest, and he was in the house of Michaias. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Michaias said, Now I know that the Lord will do me good, because a Levite has become my priest.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../judges/16.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Judges 16"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Judges 16" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../judges/18.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Judges 18"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Judges 18" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>