Judges 18:4
And he answered them, “Micah has offered me one thing and another, and he has paid me wages, so that I may be his priest.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.
In Context
Cross References
Judges 17:12And Micah filled his hand, and he had the young man with him as his priest,
Isaiah 56:11And these very imprudent dogs have never known satisfaction. The shepherds themselves do not know understanding. All have turned aside in their own way, each one to his own avarice, from the highest even to the least:
Hosea 4:8They will devour the sins of my people, and they will lift up their souls towards their iniquity.
John 10:12But the hired hand, and whoever is not a shepherd, to whom the sheep do not belong, he sees the wolf approaching, and he departs from the sheep and flees. And the wolf ravages and scatters the sheep.
Acts 20:33I have coveted neither silver and gold, nor apparel,
Titus 1:11These must be reproved, for they subvert entire houses, teaching things which should not be taught, for the favor of shameful gain.
Matthew Henry on Judges 18:2-7
The Expedition of the Danites. ( b. c. 1406.) 1 In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel. 2 And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the… Read the whole commentary →