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Judges 17 shifts from national judges to private corruption. Micah steals silver from his mother, then returns it. She uses part of it to make an idol. Micah builds a personal shrine, appoints his son as priest, and later hires a wandering Levite. He believes this arrangement guarantees God’s blessing, revealing Israel’s deeply confused spirituality. The chapter exposes the danger of mixing true worship with idolatry and highlights that “everyone did what was right in his own eyes.”
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