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Therefore I will now return it to you.” <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> 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. <A name="6"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> one of his sons as his priest. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes. <A name="8"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And there was a young Levite from Bethlehem in Judah who had been residing within the clan of Judah. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>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. <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Where are you from?” Micah asked him. <p class="reg">“I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah,” he replied, “and I am on my way to settle wherever I can find a place.” <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“Stay with me,” Micah said to him, “and be my father and priest, and I will give you ten shekels of silver<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> per year, a suit of clothes, and your provisions.” <p class="reg"> So the Levite went in <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and agreed to stay with him, and the young man became like a son to Micah. <A name="13"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Micah ordained the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in his house. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then Micah said, “Now I know that the LORD will be good to me, because a Levite has become my priest.”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <i>1,100 shekels</i><span class="thin"> </span> is approximately 27.6 pounds or 12.5 kilograms of silver; also in verse 3.<br><span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <i>200 shekels</i><span class="thin"> </span> is approximately 5 pounds or 2.3 kilograms of silver.<br><span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Hebrew <i>filled the hand of</i><span class="thin"> </span>; also in verse 12<br><span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <i>10 shekels</i><span class="thin"> </span> is approximately 4 ounces or 114 grams of silver.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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