When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred [pieces] of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made of it an engraved image and a molten image: and it was in the house of Micah.
"An ephod"  (Judges 17:5).  This was a part of the ceremonial dress of Israel's high priest, "A sacramental vestment, richly decorated, and in design somewhat like an apron with pockets."[15]  It is by no means sure, however, that the ephod spoken of here was like that.  It might have been some kind of an idol.