The Cycle Repeats

In those days, Israel has no king. No one tells anyone what to do. Every person does whatever feels right to them. Families make their own idols out of wood and stone and bow down to them. The whole nation is coming apart, piece by piece.

A man named Micah lives up in the hills of Ephraim. He takes some silver and makes an idol with his own hands. He sets it up right there in his house and builds a little worship place around it — his own shrine, his own god, his own rules.

Micah picks one of his own sons and makes him a priest. The young man puts on the robes and stands before the silver idol in their house, serving it day after day. This is not how Yahweh told his people to worship. But there is no king, so no one stops him.

Judg 17:6