I suspect that this passages has been edited so as to reverse a positive
portrayal of Micayehu and his mother into a negative one. I suspect
editorial glosses in the compound definition of the image or two images (?)
made for his shrine (pesel wemassekah [vv 3, 4]) and in the seemingly
intrusive and corrective statement in v 6 that "In those days there was no
king in Israel; everyman did what was right in his own eyes."(cp. 18:1;
19:1). If we bracket out these alleged glosses, do we find a positive
portrayal of Micayehu in which none of his actions are cast in negative
light, but rather advocated by its author?