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When he had returned the silver to his mother, his mother took 200 of the silver coins and handed them over to a silversmith. He crafted them into a carved image and into a cast image, and they were set up[a] in Micah’s house. This man Micah had his own shrine,[b] had crafted his own ephod and some household idols,[c] and had installed one of his sons as a priest.

Back in those days, Israel didn’t yet have a king, so each person did whatever seemed right in his own opinion.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 17:4 The Heb. lacks set up
  2. Judges 17:5 Lit. own house of God
  3. Judges 17:5 Lit. and teraphim; i.e. images of pagan gods used in divination; and so throughout the book