Judges 17:6 — Meaning and Application

Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred {shekels} of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.

And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. {consecrated: Heb. filled the hand}

In those days {there was} no king in Israel, {but} every man did {that which was} right in his own eyes.

And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who {was} a Levite, and he sojourned there.

And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to sojourn where he could find {a place}: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed. {as he...: Heb. in making his way}