Judges 18:17-21
Judges 18:17
Now the five men who went to spy out the land went up and entered there; they took the carved image, the ephod, the household idols, and the cast metal image, while the priest was standing at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.
Judges 18:18
When these men entered Micah’s house and took the carved image, the ephod, household idols, and the cast metal image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
Judges 18:19
And they said to him, “Be silent, put your hand over your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a 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?”
Judges 18:20
The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, the household idols, and the carved image, and went among the people.
Judges 18:21
Then they turned and left, and put the children, the livestock, and the valuables in front of them.