Judges Chapter 17

• Judges 17:1
  Judges.
• Judges 17:2
  There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
• Judges 17:3
  He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears—be...
• Judges 17:4
  He restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, then his mother said, “I most certainly dedicate the silver to the LORD from my hand fo...
• Judges 17:5
  When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to a silversmith, who made a carved image and a ...
• Judges 17:6
  The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
• Judges 17:7
  In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.
• Judges 17:8
  There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he lived there.
• Judges 17:9
  The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to live where he could find a place, and he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the hous...
• Judges 17:10
  Micah said to him, “Where did you come from?” He said to him, “I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I am looking for a place to live.”
• Judges 17:11
  Micah said to him, “Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your...
• Judges 17:12
  The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons.
• Judges 17:13
  Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
• Judges 17:14
  Then Micah said, “Now I know that the LORD will do good to me, since I have a Levite as my priest.”