Judges 17:5

American Standard Version (1901)

And the man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

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  • Gen 31:19 : 19 Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father's.
  • Judg 8:27 : 27 And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel played the harlot after it there; and it became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
  • Judg 18:14 : 14 Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.
  • Judg 18:24 : 24 And he said, ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and are gone away, and what have I more? and how then say ye unto me, What aileth thee?
  • Gen 31:30 : 30 And now, [though] thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, [yet] wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
  • Exod 28:15 : 15 And thou shalt make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skilful workman; like the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.
  • Exod 29:9 : 9 And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and bind head-tires on them: and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
  • Hos 3:4 : 4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without pillar, and without ephod or teraphim:
  • Hos 8:14 : 14 For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and builded palaces; and Judah hath multiplied fortified cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the castles thereof.
  • Heb 5:4 : 4 And no man taketh the honor unto himself, but when he is called of God, even as was Aaron.
  • Exod 24:5 : 5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel, who offered burnt-offerings, and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen unto Jehovah.
  • Exod 28:4 : 4 And these are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of checker work, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
  • 1 Sam 23:6 : 6 And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.
  • 1 Kgs 12:31 : 31 And he made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, that were not of the sons of Levi.
  • 1 Kgs 13:33-34 : 33 After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again from among all the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, that there might be priests of the high places. 34 And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.
  • Ezra 1:7 : 7 Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of Jehovah, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put in the house of his gods;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 17:6-13
    8 verses
    85%

    6In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

    7And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.

    8And the man departed out of the city, out of Beth-lehem-judah, to sojourn where he could find [a place], and he came to the hill-country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.

    9And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Beth-lehem-judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find [a place] .

    10And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten [pieces] of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.

    11And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons.

    12And Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

    13Then said Micah, Now know I that Jehovah will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.

  • Judg 18:17-20
    4 verses
    83%

    17And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men girt with weapons of war.

    18And when these went into Micah's house, and fetched the graven image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said unto them, What do ye?

    19And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thy hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be priest unto the house of one man, or to be priest unto 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 midst of the people.

  • Judg 17:1-4
    4 verses
    82%

    1And there was a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.

    2And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred [pieces] of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou didst utter a curse, and didst also speak it in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be my son of Jehovah.

    3And he restored the eleven hundred [pieces] of silver to his mother; and his mother said, I verily dedicate the silver unto Jehovah from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.

    4And when he restored the money unto his mother, his mother took two hundred [pieces] of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and it was in the house of Micah.

  • Judg 18:2-5
    4 verses
    80%

    2And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land. And they came to the hill-country of Ephraim, unto the house of Micah, and lodged there.

    3When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; and they turned aside thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what doest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?

    4And he said unto them, Thus and thus hath Micah dealt with me, and he hath hired me, and I am become his priest.

    5And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.

  • Judg 18:30-31
    2 verses
    78%

    30And the children of Dan set up for themselves the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.

    31So they set them up Micah's graven image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

  • Judg 18:13-15
    3 verses
    78%

    13And they passed thence unto the hill-country of Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah.

    14Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.

    15And they turned aside thither, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.

  • 1 Kgs 12:31
    72%

    31And he made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, that were not of the sons of Levi.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

    30And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

  • 2 Kgs 17:32
    71%

    32So they feared Jehovah, and made unto them from among themselves priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

  • 2 Chr 13:9
    71%

    9Have ye not driven out the priests of Jehovah, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made you priests after the manner of the peoples of [other] lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of [them that are] no gods.

  • 1 Sam 2:28
    70%

    28and did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up unto mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?

  • Judg 18:24
    70%

    24And he said, ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and are gone away, and what have I more? and how then say ye unto me, What aileth thee?

  • Judg 8:27
    70%

    27And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel played the harlot after it there; and it became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.

  • 2 Chr 11:15
    69%

    15and he appointed him priests for the high places, and for the he-goats, and for the calves which he had made.

  • 2 Chr 33:7
    69%

    7And he set the graven image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

  • Judg 18:26-27
    2 verses
    69%

    26And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.

    27And they took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people quiet and secure, and smote them with the edge of the sword; and they burnt the city with fire.

  • 1 Sam 1:3
    69%

    3And this man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice unto Jehovah of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests unto Jehovah, were there.

  • 2 Kgs 17:17
    68%

    17And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

  • Jer 26:17
    68%

    17Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,

  • 1 Sam 2:35
    68%

    35And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.

  • Num 5:10
    68%

    10And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.

  • Exod 28:4
    68%

    4And these are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of checker work, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.

  • Amos 5:26
    68%

    26Yea, ye have borne the tabernacle of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.

  • 1 Chr 9:41
    68%

    41And the sons of Micah: Pithon, and Melech, and Tahrea, [and Ahaz] .

  • 1 Sam 2:11
    68%

    11And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto Jehovah before Eli the priest.

  • 1 Sam 2:18
    67%

    18But Samuel ministered before Jehovah, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.

  • 1 Chr 8:35
    67%

    35And the sons of Micah: Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz.

  • Lev 27:14
    67%

    14And when a man shall sanctify his house to be holy unto Jehovah, then the priest shall estimate it, whether it be good or bad: as the priest shall estimate it, so shall it stand.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
    67%

    12and they served idols, whereof Jehovah had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.