This document is about Micah (Priest_of_Judges). For other homonyms, please refer to the Micah document. He was a man who lived in the Ephraim hill country during the period of Judges.
Judges 17:1He 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 Yahweh bless my son!”
Judges 17:2He restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, then his mother said, “I most certainly dedicate the silver to Yahweh from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a molten image. Now therefore I will restore it to you.”
그의 어머니는 이런 그를 나무라기는 커녕 은장색에게 은돈 200냥을 주어 우상을 만들게 했고, 미가는 자신의 집에 있던 개인 신당에 에봇과 드라빔 신상을 만들고 자기 아들 가운데 하나를 제사장으로 삼았다.
Judges 17:3When 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.Judges 17:4The 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 17:5In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.
그때 거할 곳을 찾아 베들레헴에서 에브라임 산지에 온 한 레위인이 미가의 집에 찾아들자 미가는 그가 레위인인 것을 알게 되자, 그를 자기 가문의 제사장으로 세웠다.
Judges 17:7The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to live where he could find a place, and he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, as he traveled.Judges 17:8Micah said to him, “Where did you come from?” He said to him, “I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I am looking for a place to live.”Judges 17:9Micah said to him, “Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your food.” So the Levite went in.Judges 17:10The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons.Judges 17:11Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.Judges 17:12Then Micah said, “Now I know that Yahweh will do good to me, since I have a Levite as my priest.”Judges 17:13Then Micah said, “Now I know that Yahweh will do good to me, since I have a Levite as my priest.”
그러나 북쪽 라이스 지역을 점령하려 이동하던 단 지파 사람들에 의해 에봇과 드라빔과 이 레위제사장을 빼앗기게 되었다.
Judges 18:27There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone else; and it was in the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. They built the city and lived in it.Judges 18:28They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel; however the name of the city used to be Laish.Judges 18:29The children of Dan set up for themselves the engraved image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.Judges 18:30So they set up for themselves Micah’s engraved image which he made, and it remained all the time that God’s house was in Shiloh.Judges 18:31So they set up for themselves Micah’s engraved image which he made, and it remained all the time that God’s house was in Shiloh.