Judges 17
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Judges 17:1-4

1Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim 2said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels of silver1 that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse—I have the silver here with me; I took it.”

Then his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the LORD!”

3And when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I wholly dedicate the silver to the LORD for my son’s benefit, to make a graven image and a molten idol. Therefore I will now return it to you.”

4So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver2 and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of Micah.

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Notes

  1. 1. Judges 17:2 1,100 shekels is approximately 27.6 pounds or 12.5 kilograms of silver; also in verse 3. ↩
  2. 2. Judges 17:4 200 shekels is approximately 5 pounds or 2.3 kilograms of silver. ↩

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