Event · Conquest and Judges
No king in Israel
No king in IsraelJudges 17:1–6Before the monarchy; no agreed dates
The last chapters of Judges show idolatry and violence in a time when "everyone did what was right in his own eyes".
- Main passage Judges 17:1–6
- Related Judges 21:25
- Place in the order
- Explicit biblical sequence Scripture itself gives the order of these events.
- Historical setting
- Before the monarchy; no agreed dates Disputed date
Judges gives years for each judge, but they add up to more than 1 Kings 6:1 allows, so some judges probably overlapped. Calendar dates depend on the date of the exodus.
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Judges 17:1–6 WEB
1There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah. 2He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears—behold, the silver is with me. I took it.” His mother said, “May the LORD bless my son!” 3He 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.” 4When 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. 5The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. 6In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.