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Judges 17 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Micah’s Idolatry

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Now there was a man of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:2 - He said to his mother, “The 1,100 pieces of silver which were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse and spoke of it [fn]in my hearing, behold, the silver is with me; it was I who took it.” And his mother said, “Blessed be my son by Yahweh.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:3 - And he then returned the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I wholly set apart the silver from my hand as holy to Yahweh for my son to make a graven image and a molten image; so now I will return [fn]them to you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:4 - So he returned the silver to his mother, and his mother took 200 pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith. And he made [fn]them into a graven image and a molten image, and [fn]they were in the house of Micah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:5 - And the man Micah had a [fn]shrine, and he made an ephod and [fn]household idols and [fn]ordained one of his sons, and he became his priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:6 - In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.

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And there was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he was sojourning there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:8 - Then the man went from the city, from Bethlehem in Judah, to sojourn wherever he might find a place; and as he made his journey, he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:9 - And Micah said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to sojourn wherever I may find a place.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:10 - Micah then said to him, “Remain with me and be a father and a priest to me, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, a suit of clothes, and your sustenance.” So the Levite went in.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:11 - And the Levite was willing to remain with the man, and the young man became to him like one of his sons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:12 - So Micah [fn]ordained the Levite, and the young man became his priest and [fn]lived in the house of Micah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:13 - Then Micah said, “Now I know that Yahweh will prosper me because I have a Levite as priest.”
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Lit in my ears
Lit it
Lit it
Lit it was
Lit house of gods
Heb teraphim
Lit filled the hand of
Lit filled the hand of
Lit was
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Judges Chapter 17 — Additional Translations:

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