1. There was a man from the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Micah.
2. He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you, on which you put a curse, even speaking the curse in my ears—here is the silver with me. I took it.”Then his mother said, “May the Lord bless my son!”
3. Then he returned the eleven hundred silver coins to his mother. His mother said, “I certainly consecrated the silver to the Lord, for my son to make a carved idol and a metal idol, so now I return it to you.”
4. When he returned the silver to his mother, she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith to make a carved idol and a metal idol. And they were put in the house of Micah.
5. This man Micah owned a shrine. He made an ephod and household idols, and he hired one of his sons to be a priest for him.
6. In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his eyes.