Judges 18:14–20

¹⁴Then ^uanswered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that ^xthere is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do. ¹⁵And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and ^†saluted him. ¹⁶And the ^ysix hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, which were of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate. ¹⁷And ^zthe five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took ^athe graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war. ¹⁸And these went into Micah’s house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye? ¹⁹And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, ^blay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, ^cand be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel? ²⁰And the priest’s ^dheart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.