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He returned the silver to his mother, and his mother gave two hundred shekels of silver to the silversmith, who made them into a cast and engraved idol, which was placed in the house of Micah.

This man Micah had a “house of God,” where he placed a special priestly vest and a household god and where he ordained[a] one of his sons as his own priest.

In those days there was no king in Israel, and every man did whatever was right in his own eyes.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 17:5 Literally filled the hand of. The same expression is used for Moses’ ordination of priests. The same term occurs in verse 12.