• Micah’s Idolatry

  • 1 Now there was a man of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah.
  • 2 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 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 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I wholly consecrate the silver from my hand to the Lord for my son to make a carved image and a cast metal image; so now I will return them 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 them into a carved image and a cast metal image, and they were in the house of Micah.
  • 5 And the man Micah had a shrine and he made an ephod and household idols, and consecrated one of his sons, so that he might become his priest.
  • 6 In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
  • 7 Now there was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he was staying there.
  • 8 Then the man left the city, Bethlehem in Judah, to stay wherever he would find a place; and as he made his journey, he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah.
  • 9 Micah said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to stay wherever I may find a place.”
  • 10 Micah then said to him, “Stay with me and be a father and a priest to me, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, a supply of clothing, and your sustenance.” So the Levite went in.
  • 11 The Levite agreed to live with the man, and the young man became to him like one of his sons.
  • 12 So Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in the house of Micah.
  • 13 Then Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will prosper me, because I have a Levite as a priest.”