OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 6

Judges 17:6

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In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.

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Judges 17:6 in context

Judges 17:3–9

3

He restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, then his mother said, “I most certainly dedicate the silver to the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a molten image. Now therefore I will restore it to you.”

4

When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to a silversmith, who made a carved image and a molten image out of it. It was in the house of Micah.

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.

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In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.

7

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

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.

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.”

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