Verse 4

And he aunswered them: Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hyred me, and I am become his priest.

Referenced Verses

  • Judg 17:10 : 10 And Micah sayde agayne vnto hym: Dwell with me, and be vnto me a father and a prieste, and I will geue thee ten syluerlynges by yere, two garmentes, and thy meate and dryncke. So the Leuite went in.
  • Judg 17:12 : 12 And Micah consecrated the Leuite, & the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
  • Prov 28:21 : 21 To haue respect of persons in iudgement is not good, for that man wyll do wrong, yea euen for a peece of bread.
  • Isa 56:11 : 11 They are shamelesse dogges that be neuer satisfied: The sheepheardes also in like maner haue no vnderstandyng, but euery man turneth his owne way, euery one after his owne couetousnesse with all his power.
  • Ezek 13:19 : 19 And wyll ye pollute me to my people for handfuls of barly, and for peeces of bread, to kyll the soules of them that dye not, and promise life to them that liue not, in lying to my people that heareth your lyes?
  • Hos 4:8-9 : 8 They eate vp the sinnes of my people, and encourage them in their wickednesse. 9 Thus the priest is become lyke the people: Wherfore I wyll punishe them for their wicked wayes, and rewarde them according to their owne imaginations.
  • Mal 1:10 : 10 Who is there euen among you that would shutte the doores, and kindle not fire on myne aulter in vaine? I haue no pleasure in you, saith the Lorde of hoastes, neither wyll I accept an offering at your hande.
  • John 10:12-13 : 12 An hyrelyng, and he which is not the sheephearde, neither the sheepe are his owne, seeth the wolfe commyng, and leaueth the sheepe, and fleeth, and the wolfe catcheth, & scattereth the sheepe. 13 The hyrelyng fleeth, because he is an hyrelyng, and careth not for the sheepe.
  • Acts 8:18-21 : 18 And when Simon sawe, that thorow laying on of the apostles handes, ye holy ghost was geuen, he offred the money, 19 Saying: Geue me also this power, that on whomsoeuer I put the hands, he may receaue the holy ghost. 20 But Peter sayde vnto him: Thy money perishe with thee, because thou hast thought that the gyfte of God may be obteyned with money. 21 Thou hast neither part nor felowship in this busynesse: For thy hearte is not ryght in the syght of God.
  • Acts 20:33 : 33 I haue desired no mans syluer, golde, or vesture.
  • 1 Tim 3:3 : 3 Not geuen to ouermuch wine, no striker, not greedy of fylthy lucre: but gentle, abhorryng fyghtyng, abhorryng couetousnesse:
  • Titus 1:11 : 11 Whose mouthes must be stopped, which subuert whole houses, teachyng thynges which they ought not, for fylthie lucre sake.
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And through couetousnesse, shall they with fayned wordes make marchaudize of you, whose iudgement is nowe not farre of, and their damnation sleepeth not.
  • 2 Pet 2:14-15 : 14 Hauyng eyes full of adulterie, & that can not ceasse from sinne, begylyng vnstable soules: Heartes they haue exercised with robberie, they are cursed chyldren, 15 Which haue forsaken the ryght waye, and are gone astray, folowyng the way of Balaam the sonne of Bosor, which loued the rewarde of vnrighteousnesse: