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.
"No king in Israel"  (Judges 17:6).  This verse is obviously the comment of the author of Judges; and as Campbell said, "He declares in effect that, "A king would have put a stop to that kind of corrupt worship."[20]  Yes, that is exactly what is implied in the repeated use of this  Judges 17:6, not only here, but several times subsequently, as in  Judges 18:1;  Judges 19:1, and in  Judges 21:25,