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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 NLT</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="../">NLT</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 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">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/judges/17.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Micah’s Idols</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>There was a man named Micah, who lived in the hill country of Ephraim. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>One day he said to his mother, “I heard you place a curse on the person who stole 1,100 pieces<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> of silver from you. Well, I have the money. I was the one who took it.”</p><p class="reg">“The LORD bless you for admitting it,” his mother replied. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>He returned the money to her, and she said, “I now dedicate these silver coins to the LORD. In honor of my son, I will have an image carved and an idol cast.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>So when he returned the money to his mother, she took 200 silver coins and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into an image and an idol. And these were placed in Micah’s house. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Micah set up a shrine for the idol, and he made a sacred ephod and some household idols. Then he installed one of his sons as his personal priest.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>In those days Israel had no king; all the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>One day a young Levite, who had been living in Bethlehem in Judah, arrived in that area. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He had left Bethlehem in search of another place to live, and as he traveled, he came to the hill country of Ephraim. He happened to stop at Micah’s house as he was traveling through. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Where are you from?” Micah asked him.</p><p class="reg">He replied, “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I am looking for a place to live.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“Stay here with me,” Micah said, “and you can be a father and priest to me. I will give you ten pieces of silver<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> a year, plus a change of clothes and your food.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The Levite agreed to this, and the young man became like one of Micah’s sons.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So Micah installed the Levite as his personal priest, and he lived in Micah’s house. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“I know the LORD will bless me now,” Micah said, “because I have a Levite serving as my priest.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">17:2 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">1,100 [shekels],</span><span class="ft"> about 28 pounds or 12.5 kilograms in weight.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">17:10 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">10 [shekels] of silver,</span><span class="ft"> about 4 ounces or 114 grams in weight.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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