Judges 18:14–20

^14uThen the five men who had gone to spy out the country of Laish answered and said to their brethren, “Do you know that ^vthere are in these houses an ephod, household idols, a carved image, and a molded image? Now therefore, consider what you should do.” ¹⁵So they turned aside there, and came to the house of the young Levite man—to the house of Micah—and greeted him. ¹⁶The ^wsix hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate. ¹⁷Then ^xthe five men who had gone to spy out the land went up. Entering there, they took ^ythe carved image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molded image. The priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men who were armed with weapons of war.

¹⁸When these went into Micah’s house and took the carved image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molded image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

¹⁹And they said to him, “Be quiet, ^zput your hand over your mouth, and come with us; ^abe a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be a priest to the household of one man, or that you be a priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?” ²⁰So the priest’s heart was glad; and he took the ephod, the household idols, and the carved image, and took his place among the people.