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When he returned the silver to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith, who made a molten image and a carved idol. They were placed in the house of Micah. This Micah had a temple, and he made an ephod and a teraphim. He consecrated one of his sons as his priest. In those days Israel had no king,[a] and everyone did what in his own opinion he thought to be right.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 17:6 Israel had no king: this lament, repeated in Jdg 18:1; 19:1; 21:25, indicates that the Book of Judges was written during the time of the monarchy and reiterates that lawlessness and cultic behavior were a continuing problem while there was no king among the Israelites.