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Podcast Introduction Our reading today is Judges 17-21, and I’m calling the episode “Instructions Required.” Comments on Judges 17-21 Proverbs 14:12 tells us, "There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." In Judges 17, we read about the fellow named Micah that stole a very large amount of silver from his mother, and then returned it to her. The she decided to "set apart" the silver to the Lord, and gave a small portion of it to a silversmith to make an idol. And Micah set up a small temple in his house and made one of his sons to serve as "priest". Obviously, *none* of this was right in God's eyes. All of this happened in the first five verses of the chapter. And in verse 6 we read, "In those days Israel didn’t have a king. The people did anything they thought was right.” And as we just read, the book of Judges ended with those same words,“In those days Israel didn’t have a king. The people did anything they thought was right.” Pretty much everything we read fr