Judg 18:14-20 | NASB2020 | STEP | Then 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 an ephod and household idols , and a carved image and a cast metal image ? Now then, consider what you should do .”

Judges 18:14-20

Danites Take Micah’s Idols

14 Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish ^{▼▼Lit answered and said}said to their kinsmen, “Do you know that there are in these houses ^ban ephod and ^{▼▼Heb teraphim}household idols, and a carved image and a cast metal image? Now then, consider what you should do.” 15 So they turned aside there and came to the house of the young man, the Levite, to the house of Micah, and asked ^{▼▼Lit his well-being}him how he was doing. 16 Meanwhile, the six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the sons of Dan, were positioned at the entrance of the gate. 17 Now the five men who went to spy out the land went up and entered there; they took ^ethe carved image, the ephod, the ^{▼▼Heb teraphim}household idols, and the cast metal image, while the priest was standing at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war. 18 When these men entered Micah’s house and took the carved image, the ephod, ^{▼▼Heb teraphim}household idols, and the cast metal image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?” 19 And they said to him, “Be silent, ^hput your hand over your mouth, and go with us, and be to us ⁱa 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?” 20 The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, the ^{▼▼Heb teraphim}household idols, and the carved image, and went among the people.