Judges 18:14–20

¹⁴Then the five men who had spied out the land of Laish^q said to their fellow Danites, “Do you know that one of these houses has an ephod,^r some household gods and an image overlaid with silver?^s Now you know what to do.” ¹⁵So they turned in there and went to the house of the young Levite at Micah’s place and greeted him. ¹⁶The six hundred Danites,^t armed for battle, stood at the entrance of the gate. ¹⁷The five men who had spied out the land went inside and took the idol, the ephod and the household gods^u while the priest and the six hundred armed men^v stood at the entrance of the gate.

¹⁸When the five men went into Micah’s house and took^w the idol, the ephod and the household gods,^x the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

¹⁹They answered him, “Be quiet!^y Don’t say a word. Come with us, and be our father and priest.^z Isn’t it better that you serve a tribe and clan^a in Israel as priest rather than just one man’s household?” ²⁰The priest was very pleased. He took the ephod, the household gods and the idol and went along with the people.