Micah

Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim

So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of Micah.

Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.

“Where are you from?” Micah asked him. “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah,” he replied, “and I am on my way to settle wherever I can find a place.”

“Stay with me,” Micah said to him, “and be my father and priest, and I will give you ten shekels of silver per year, a suit of clothes, and your provisions.” So the Levite went in

…and agreed to stay with him, and the young man became like a son to Micah.

Micah ordained the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in his house.

Then Micah said, “Now I know that the LORD will be good to me, because a Levite has become my priest.”

So the Danites sent out five men from their clans, men of valor from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. “Go and explore the land,” they told them. The men entered the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah, where they spent the night.

“Micah has done this and that for me,” he replied, “and he has hired me to be his priest.”

So they turned aside there and went to the home of the young Levite, the house of Micah, and greeted him.

When they called out after them, the Danites turned to face them and said to Micah, “What is the matter with you that you have called out such a company?”

So the Danites went on their way, and Micah turned to go back home, because he saw that they were too strong for him.

Micah his son, Reaiah his son, Baal his son,

The son of Jonathan: Merib-baal, and Merib-baal was the father of Micah.

The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz.

The son of Jonathan: Merib-baal, who was the father of Micah.

The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tahrea, and Ahaz.

The sons of Uzziel: Micah was the first and Isshiah the second.

From the sons of Uzziel: Micah; from the sons of Micah: Shamir.

From the sons of Uzziel: Micah; from the sons of Micah: Shamir.

The brother of Micah: Isshiah; from the sons of Isshiah: Zechariah.

…and commanded Hilkiah, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Abdon son of Micah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the servant of the king:

“Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and told all the people of Judah that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.’

This is the word of the LORD that came to Micah the Moreshite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah—what he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem: