1. Judges 17:2 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What led Micah to confess?

Judges 17:2 (ESV)

2 And he said to his mother, “The 1,100 pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it.” And his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the LORD.”

Micah was not led to confess his misdeed because of a recognition of his sin or remorse over it. Rather, it was a fear of the curse that his mother had uttered against the thief that led him to confess.