Judges 18:20

The priest's heart was glad. He took the ephod, the household gods, and the carved figure, and went along with the people.

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And the priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.

In Context

19They said to him, “Be quiet! Put your hand on your mouth and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest for the house of one man, or to be priest for a tribe and a clan in Israel?”

21So they turned and went away. They put the small children in front of themselves, as well as the cattle and their possessions.

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Cross References

Judges 17:10Micah said to him, “Stay with me, and be to me a father and a priest. I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, a suit of clothes, and your food.” So the Levite went into his house.

Isaiah 56:11The dogs have big appetites; they can never get enough; 1 they are shepherds without discernment; 1 they have all turned to their own way, each one covetous for unjust gain. 1

Hosea 4:3So the land is drying up, 1 and everyone living in it is wasting away; 1 the beasts in the fields and the birds in the sky, 1 even the fish in the sea, are being taken away.

Philippians 3:19Their end is destruction. For their god is their stomach, and their pride is in their shame. They think about earthly things.

2 Peter 2:15They have abandoned the right way and have wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Beor, who loved to receive payment for unrighteousness. + 2:15 Some other versions read, Balaam, son of Bosor

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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