Judges 17:1

CHAPTER XVII

Micah, an Ephraimite, restores to his mother eleven hundred

shekels of silver, which he had taken from her, 1, 2.

She dedicates this to God; and out of a part of it makes a

graven image and a molten image, and gets them up tn the

house of Micah, 3, 4;

who consecrates one of his sons to be his priest, 5.

He afterwards finds a Levite, whom he consecrates for a priest,

and gives him annually ten shekels of silver, with his food and

clothing, 6-13.

NOTES ON CHAP. XVII

Verse Judges 17:1. And there was a man of Mount Ephraim] It is extremely difficult to fix the chronology of this and the following transactions. Some think them to be here in their natural order; others, that they happened in the time of Joshua, or immediately after the ancients who outlived Joshua. All that can be said with certainty is this, that they happened when there was no king in Israel; i.e., about the time of the Judges, or in some time of the anarchy, Judges 17:6.