Judges 18:20
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New International Version (©2011)
The priest was very pleased. He took the ephod, the household gods and the idol and went along with the people.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The young priest was quite happy to go with them, so he took along the sacred ephod, the household idols, and the carved image.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And the priest’s heart was glad. He took the ephod and the household gods and the carved image and went along with the people.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
The priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod and household idols and the graven image and went among the people.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So the priest was pleased and took his ephod, household idols, and carved image, and went with the people.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The priest was happy to oblige, so he took the ephod, the household idols, and the carved image and went along with the army.

NET Bible (©2006)
The priest was happy. He took the ephod, the personal idols, and the carved image and joined the group.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The priest was content. He took the ephod, the household idols, and the carved idol and went with the people.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the household gods, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.

American King James Version
And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the middle of the people.

American Standard Version
And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
When he had heard this, he agreed to their words, and took the ephod, and the idols, and the graven god, and departed with them.

Darby Bible Translation
And the priest's heart was glad; he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.

English Revised Version
And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.

World English Bible
The priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the engraved image, and went in the midst of the people.

Young's Literal Translation
And the heart of the priest is glad, and he taketh the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and goeth into the midst of the people,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

17:7-13 Micah thought it was a sign of God's favour to him and his images, that a Levite should come to his door. Thus those who please themselves with their own delusions, if Providence unexpectedly bring any thing to their hands that further them in their evil way, are apt from thence to think that God is pleased with them.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 20. - The priest's heart was glad, etc. The prospect of greater dignity and greater emolument stifled all sentiments of gratitude and loyalty to Micah, and made him cheerfully connive at an act of theft and sacrilege.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the priest's heart was glad,.... He rejoiced that such an opportunity offered; it suited well with his covetous, ambitious, rambling, and unsettled disposition of mind:

and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image; and no doubt the molten image also, out of the hands of the five men into his own, agreeing to go with them, and officiate for them:

and went in the midst of the people; the six hundred armed men, either for the security of himself, if Micah should raise his servants, and his neighbours, to pursue after him, and fetch him back, with his images; or, as others think, in imitation of the priests bearing the ark, who in journeying marched in the middle of the camp.

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Danites Take Micah's Idols
…19And they said to him, Hold your peace, lay your hand on 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 that you be a priest to a tribe and a family in Israel? 20And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the middle of the people. 21So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them. …

Leviticus 26:1 "'Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the LORD your God.
Judges 18:19 They answered him, "Be quiet! Don't say a word. Come with us, and be our father and priest. Isn't it better that you serve a tribe and clan in Israel as priest rather than just one man's household?"
Judges 18:21 Putting their little children, their livestock and their possessions in front of them, they turned away and left.
Ezekiel 21:21 For the king of Babylon will stop at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He will cast lots with arrows, he will consult his idols, he will examine the liver.