So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took five pounds of silver and gave it to a silversmith. He made it into a carved image overlaid with silver,[a] and it was in Micah’s house.

This man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household idols,(A) and installed one of his sons to be his priest. In those days there was no king in Israel;(B) everyone did whatever he wanted.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 17:4 Or image and a cast image
  2. Judges 17:6 Lit did what was right in his eyes

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