NHEBME - Judges - 17

17:1  There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. .

17:2  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, behold, the silver is with me; I took it." His mother said, "Blessed be my son of the Lord."

17:3  He restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother; and his mother said, "I most certainly dedicate the silver to the Lord from my hand for my son, to make an engraved image and a molten image. Now therefore I will restore it to you."

17:4  When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made of it an engraved image and a molten image: and it was in the house of Micah.

17:5  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.

17:6  In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

17:7  There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he lived there.

17:8  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 house of Micah, as he traveled.

17:9  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."

17:10  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 by the year, and a suit of clothing, and your food. So the Levite went in.

17:11  The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons.

17:12  Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

17:13  Then Micah said, "Now I know that the Lord will do good to me, seeing I have a Levite as my priest."