Judges 17:11,12

The Levite was content Being infected with the common superstition and idolatry of the times. As one of his sons That is, treated with the same degree of kindness and affection. Micah consecrated the Levite To be a priest, for which he thought a consecration necessary, as knowing the Levites were no less excluded from the priest's office than the people. The young man Instead of his son, whom he had consecrated, but now it seems restrained from the exercise of that office, devolving it wholly upon the Levite, who was nearer akin to it.