◄ Judges 18:20 ►
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Good News Translation
This made the priest very happy, so he took the sacred objects and went along with them.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the priest accepted the offer. He took the ephod, the teraphim, and the idol, and went along with the people.

Contemporary English Version
The priest really liked that idea. So he took the vest and the idols and joined the others

New American Bible
The priest, agreeing, took the ephod, the teraphim, and the idol, and went along with the troops.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Judges 17:10 And Michas said: Stay with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee every year ten pieces of silver, and a double suit of apparel, and thy victuals.

Proverbs 30:15 The horseleech hath two daughters that say: Bring, bring. There are three things that never are satisfied, and the fourth never saith: It is enough.

Isaiah 56:11 And most impudent dogs, they never had enough: the shepherds themselves knew no understanding: all have turned aside into their own way, every one after his own gain, from the first even to the last.

Ezekiel 13:19 And they violated me among my people, for a handful of barley, and a piece of bread, to kill souls which should not die, and to save souls alive which should not live, telling lies to my people that believe lies.

Hosea 4:3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth in it shall languish with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the air: yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be gathered together.

Acts 20:33 I have not coveted any man's silver, gold or apparel, as

Philippians 3:19 Whose end is destruction: whose God is their belly: and whose glory is in their shame: who mind earthly things.

2 Peter 2:3,15,16 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not: and their perdition slumbereth not. . . .

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Context
The Danites Take Micah's Idols
…19And they said to him: Hold thy peace, and put thy finger on thy mouth, and come with us, that we may have thee for a father, and a priest. Whether is better for thee, to be a priest in the house of one man, or in a tribe and family in Israel? 20When he heard this, he agreed to their words, and took the ephod, and the idols, and the graven god, and departed with them.21And when they were going forward, and had put before them the children and the cattle, and all that was valuable,…
Cross References
Leviticus 26:1
I am the Lord your God. You shall not make to yourselves any idol or graven thing: neither shall you erect pillars, nor set up a remarkable stone in your land, to adore it. For I am the Lord your God.

Judges 18:19
And they said to him: Hold thy peace, and put thy finger on thy mouth, and come with us, that we may have thee for a father, and a priest. Whether is better for thee, to be a priest in the house of one man, or in a tribe and family in Israel?

Judges 18:21
And when they were going forward, and had put before them the children and the cattle, and all that was valuable,

Ezekiel 21:21
For the king of Babylon stood in the highway, at the head of two ways, seeking divination, shuffling arrows: he inquired of the idols, and consulted entrails.

Judges 18:19
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