Consecrated — To be a priest, for which he thought a consecration necessary, as knowing the Levites were no less excluded from the priest's office than the people. The young man — Instead of his son, whom he had consecrated, but now seems to restrain him from the exercise of that office, and to devolve it wholly upon the Levite, who was nearer akin to it.
Related Commentaries of Judges 17:12
Judges 17:12
12 And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.