English Bible Presentation Sharing - Judges Book, chapter 17, verse 11 in Asv Version

Judges 17 : 1 (ASV)

And there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.

Judges 17 : 2 (ASV)

And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou didst utter a curse, and didst also speak it in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be my son of Jehovah.

Judges 17 : 3 (ASV)

And he restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother; and his mother said, I verily dedicate the silver unto Jehovah from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.

Judges 17 : 4 (ASV)

And when he restored the money unto his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and it was in the house of Micah.

Judges 17 : 5 (ASV)

And 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.

Judges 17 : 6 (ASV)

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

Judges 17 : 7 (ASV)

And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.

Judges 17 : 8 (ASV)

And the man departed out of the city, out of Beth-lehem-judah, to sojourn where he could find a place, and he came to the hill-country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.

Judges 17 : 9 (ASV)

And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Beth-lehem-judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.

Judges 17 : 10 (ASV)

And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten pieces of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.

Judges 17 : 11 (ASV)

And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons.

Judges 17 : 12 (ASV)

And Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

Judges 17 : 13 (ASV)

Then said Micah, Now know I that Jehovah will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.