Judges 18:14–20

Danites Take Micah’s Idols

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 ^aan ephod and ¹household 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 ^athe graven image and the ephod and ¹household 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 ¹household idols and the molten image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

¹⁹They said to him, “Be silent, ^aput your hand over your mouth and come with us, and be to us ^ba 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 ¹household idols and the graven image and went among the people.