2. He said to his mother, “When someone stole those 1,100 pieces of silver from you, you put a curse on the thief. I heard you do it. Look, I have the money. I am the one who took it.”His mother said, “May the Lord bless you, my son!”
3. He gave the money back to his mother, and she said, “To stop the curse from falling on my son, I myself am solemnly dedicating the silver to the Lord. It will be used to make a wooden idol covered with silver. So now I will give the pieces of silver back to you.”
4. Then he gave them back to his mother. She took 200 of the pieces of silver and gave them to a metalworker, who made an idol, carving it from wood and covering it with the silver. It was placed in Micah's house.
5. This man Micah had his own place of worship. He made some idols and an ephod, and appointed one of his sons as his priest.
6. There was no king in Israel at that time; all the people did just as they pleased.
7. At that same time there was a young Levite who had been living in the town of Bethlehem in Judah.