Judges 18
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New American Standard Bible 1995

Judges 18:14-20

14Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish said to their kinsmen, “Do you know that there are in these houses 1an ephod and 2household idols and a graven image and a molten image? Now therefore, consider what you should do.” 15They turned aside there and came to the house of the young man, the Levite, to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare. 16The six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the sons of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate. 17Now the five men who went to spy out the land went up and entered there, and took 3the graven image and the ephod and 4household idols and the molten image, while the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war. 18When these went into Micah’s house and took the graven image, the ephod and 5household idols and the molten image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?” 19They said to him, “Be silent, 6put your hand over your mouth and come with us, and be to us 7a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be a priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?” 20The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod and 8household idols and the graven image and went among the people.

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Notes

  1. 1. Judges 18:14 Judg 17:5 ↩
  2. 2. Judges 18:14 Heb teraphim ↩
  3. 3. Judges 18:17 Gen 31:19, 30; Is 41:29; Mic 5:13 ↩
  4. 4. Judges 18:17 Heb teraphim ↩
  5. 5. Judges 18:18 Heb teraphim ↩
  6. 6. Judges 18:19 Job 21:5; 29:9; 40:4 ↩
  7. 7. Judges 18:19 Judg 17:10 ↩
  8. 8. Judges 18:20 Heb teraphim ↩

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