Judges 18:24

And he responded: “You have taken away my gods, which I made for myself, and the priest, and all that I have. And do you say, ‘What is it that you want?’”

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In The King James Version

And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what is this that ye say unto me, What aileth thee?

In Context

23And they began to shout behind their backs. And when they had looked back, they said to Micah: “What do you want? Why are you crying out?”

25And the sons of Dan said to him, “Take care that you no longer speak to us, otherwise men with a mind for violence may overwhelm you, and you yourself would perish with all your house.”

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Cross References

Genesis 31:30It may be that you desired to go to your own, and that you longed for the house of your father. But why have you stolen my gods?”

Judges 17:13saying: “Now I know that God will be good to me, since I have a priest from the stock of the Levites.”

Psalms 115:8I will sacrifice to you the sacrifice of praise, and I will invoke the name of the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:38A drought is over her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and they glory in portents.

Ezekiel 23:5And then, Oholah committed fornication against me, and she acted madly with her lovers, with the Assyrians who approached her,

Acts 19:26And you are seeing and hearing that this man Paul, by persuasion, has turned away a great multitude, not only from Ephesus, but from nearly all of Asia, saying, ‘These things are not gods which have been made by hands.’

Matthew Henry on Judges 18:15-27

Micah's Gods Stolen; Micah's Attempt to Recover His Idols. ( b. c. 1406.) 14 Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do. 15 And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him. 16 And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war,… Read the whole commentary →

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