CHAP. XVII.
AND there was a man a 1.1 of mount Ephraim, whose name was ‡ 1.2 Micah.
2 And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst b 1.3, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me, I took it c 1.4. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the LORD d 1.5, my son.
3 And when he had restored the eleven hun∣dred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly ‡ 1.6 dedicated the silver unto the LORD e 1.7, from my hand, for my son f 1.8 to make a graven image, and a molten image g 1.9: now there∣fore I will restore it unto thee h 1.10.
4 Yet he restored the money unto his mother i 1.11, and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver k 1.12, and gave them to the founder, who made there▪ of l 1.13 a graven image, and a molten image, and they were in the house of Micah.
5 And the man Micah had an house of gods m 1.14,