What Goes Around...

by J

Looks like Micah  did whatever he wanted to. Stole silver from his mother, made one of his sons a priest, made idols to worship, hired a Levite to be his personal priest!

Why do they continue to turn their back on God. No where does it say that any idol saved them from anything but when they really need him, God is there to deliver for them. 

Even the priest was corrupt, willing to serve as a priest to idols and other gods for money. I think the verse that sums it up best is 17:6  - "In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit." kind of sad!

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Yes, Judges 17:6 sums it up perfectly!

Interestingly, the entire book of Judges ends with the identical words. (Judges 21:25)  "In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes."

Another interesting fact I learned is that the tribe of Dan, who stole and used Micah's idols, is notorious for their use of idols.  Later in Revelation Chapter 7 John (the author of Revelation) lists the 144,000 witnesses that come from the twelve tribes of Israel and he lists the twelve tribes.  He omits Dan, instead putting Manassas, the son of Joseph, in Dan's place.  Some scholars believe that this omission is intentional and rooted in the Dan tribe's prevalent use of idols.

Another interesting note I learned from the bibletrack.org website is that the location of the city of Dan is way north of the Sea of Galilea, and that nine times in the Old Testament, writes used the phrase "from Dan even to Beersheba" as a way of telling us they are describing the entire nation of Israel.