Judges 18:24

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And he said, You have taken my gods which I made, and my priest, and have gone away; what is there for me now? Why then do you say to me, What is your trouble?

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  • Ps 115:8 : 8 Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his faith in them.
  • Isa 44:18-20 : 18 They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention. 19 And no one takes note, no one has enough knowledge or wisdom to say, I have put part of it in the fire, and made bread on it; I have had a meal of the flesh cooked with it: and am I now to make the rest of it into a false god? am I to go down on my face before a bit of wood? 20 As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.
  • Jer 50:38 : 38 A sword is on her waters, drying them up; for it is a land of images, and their minds are fixed on false gods.
  • Jer 51:17 : 17 Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.
  • Ezek 23:5 : 5 And Oholah was untrue to me when she was mine; she was full of desire for her lovers, even for the Assyrians, her neighbours,
  • Hab 2:18-19 : 18 What profit is the pictured image to its maker? and as for the metal image, the false teacher, why does its maker put his faith in it, making false gods without a voice? 19 A curse on him who says to the wood, Awake! to the unbreathing stone, Up! let it be a teacher! See, it is plated with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all inside it.
  • Acts 19:26 : 26 And you see, for it has come to your ears, that not only at Ephesus, but almost all through Asia, this Paul has been teaching numbers of people and turning them away, saying that those are not gods who are made by men's hands:
  • Rev 17:2 : 2 With whom the kings of the earth made themselves unclean, and those who are on the earth were full of the wine of her evil desires.
  • Judg 17:13 : 13 Then Micah said, Now I am certain that the Lord will do me good, seeing that the Levite has become my priest.

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  • Judg 18:13-23
    11 verses
    87%

    13 From there they went on to the hill-country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah.

    14 Then the five men who had gone to make a search through the country of Laish, said to their brothers, Have you knowledge that in these houses there is an ephod and family gods and a pictured image and a metal image? So now you see what to do.

    15 And turning from their road they came to the house of the young Levite, the house of Micah, and said to him, Is it well with you?

    16 And the six hundred armed men of the Danites took their places by the doorway.

    17 Then the five men who had gone to make a search through the land, went in and took the pictured image and the ephod and the family gods and the metal image; and the priest was by the doorway with the six hundred armed men.

    18 And when they went into Micah's house and took out the pictured image and the ephod and the family gods and the metal image, the priest said to them, What are you doing?

    19 And they said to him, Be quiet; say nothing, and come with us and be our father and priest; is it better for you to be priest to one man's house or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?

    20 Then the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod and the family gods and the pictured image and went with the people.

    21 So they went on their way again, putting the little ones and the oxen and the goods in front of them.

    22 When they had gone some way from the house of Micah, the men from the houses near Micah's house came together and overtook the children of Dan,

    23 Crying out to them. And the Danites, turning round, said to Micah, What is your trouble, that you have taken up arms?

  • Judg 18:25-27
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    78%

    25 And the children of Dan said to him, Say no more, or men of bitter spirit may make an attack on you, causing loss of your life and the lives of your people.

    26 Then the children of Dan went on their way; and when Micah saw that they were stronger than he, he went back to his house.

    27 And they took that which Micah had made, and his priest, and came to Laish, to a people living quietly and without thought of danger, and they put them to the sword without mercy, burning down their town.

  • Judg 18:2-5
    4 verses
    77%

    2 So the children of Dan sent five men from among their number, strong men, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to take a look at the land and make a search through it; and they said to them, Go and make a search through the land; and they came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, where they made a stop for the night.

    3 When they were near the house of Micah, hearing a voice which was not strange to them, that of the young Levite, they went out of their road to his place, and said to him, How did you come here? and what are you doing in this place? and why are you here?

    4 And he said to them, This is what Micah did for me, and he gave me payment and I became his priest.

    5 Then they said, Do get directions from God for us, to see if the journey on which we are going will have a good outcome.

  • Gen 31:30
    71%

    30 And now, it seems, you are going because your heart's desire is for your father's house; but why have you taken my gods?

  • Judg 17:2-5
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    70%

    2 And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver which were taken from you, about which you took an oath and said in my hearing, I have given this silver to the Lord from my hand for myself, to make a pictured image and a metal image: see, I have the silver, for I took it: so now I will give it back to you. And his mother said, May the blessing of the Lord be on my son.

    3 And he gave back the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, and his mother said, I have made the silver holy to the Lord from me for my son, to make a pictured image and a metal image.

    4 So he gave the silver back to his mother. Then his mother took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a metal-worker who made a pictured image and a metal image from them: and it was in the house of Micah.

    5 And the man Micah had a house of gods; and he made an ephod and family gods and put one of his sons in the position of priest.

  • Judg 18:30-31
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    70%

    30 (And the children of Dan put up the pictured image for themselves; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests for the tribe of the Danites till the day when the ark was taken prisoner.)

    31 And they put up for themselves the image which Micah had made, and it was there all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

  • Jer 2:28-29
    2 verses
    69%

    28 But where are the gods you have made for yourselves? let them come, if they are able to give you salvation in the time of your trouble: for the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah.

    29 Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.

  • Judg 10:13-14
    2 verses
    68%

    13 But, for all this, you have given me up and have been servants to other gods: so I will be your saviour no longer.

    14 Go, send up your cry for help to the gods of your selection; let them be your saviours in the time of your trouble.

  • 1 Sam 4:16
    68%

    16 And the man said to Eli, I have come from the army and have come in flight today from the fight. And he said, How did it go, my son?

  • Ezek 24:19
    68%

    19 And the people said to me, Will you not make clear to us the sense of these things; is it for us you do them?

  • Joel 3:5
    68%

    5 And it will be that whoever makes his prayer to the name of the Lord will be kept safe: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem some will be kept safe, as the Lord has said, and will be among the small band marked out by the Lord.

  • Jer 2:11
    68%

    11 Has any nation ever made a change in their gods, though they are no gods? but my people have given up their glory in exchange for what is of no profit.

  • Jer 16:20
    67%

    20 Will a man make for himself gods which are no gods?

  • Exod 32:23
    67%

    23 For they said to me, Make us a god to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us up out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has come to him.

  • 1 Sam 26:18-19
    2 verses
    67%

    18 And he said, Why does my lord go armed against his servant? what have I done? or what evil is there in me?

    19 Let my lord the king give ear now to the words of his servant. If it is the Lord who is moving you against me, let him take an offering: but if it is the children of men, may they be cursed before the Lord, for driving me out today and keeping me from my place in the heritage of the Lord, saying, Go, be the servant of other gods.

  • Judg 17:9-10
    2 verses
    67%

    9 And Micah said to him, Where do you come from? And he said to him, I am a Levite from Beth-lehem-judah, and I am looking for a living-place.

    10 Then Micah said to him, Make your living-place with me, and be a father and a priest to me, and I will give you ten shekels of silver a year and your clothing and food.

  • Mic 6:3
    67%

    3 O my people, what have I done to you? how have I been a weariness to you? give answer against me.

  • Deut 32:37
    66%

    37 And he will say, Where are their gods, the rock in which they put their faith?

  • Gen 31:32
    66%

    32 As for your gods, if anyone of us has them, let him be put to death: make search before us all for what is yours, and take it. For Jacob had no knowledge that Rachel had taken them.

  • 1 Kgs 18:9
    66%

    9 And he said, What sin have I done, that you would give up your servant into the hand of Ahab, and be the cause of my death?

  • 2 Kgs 18:35
    66%

    35 Who among all the gods of these countries have kept their country from falling into my hands, to give cause for the thought that the Lord will keep Jerusalem from falling into my hands?

  • 1 Sam 2:23
    66%

    23 And he said to them, Why are you doing such things? for from all this people I get accounts of your evil ways.

  • 2 Kgs 22:18
    66%

    18 But to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from the Lord, say, This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said: As to the words which have come to your ears,

  • Jer 2:5
    66%

    5 These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?

  • Amos 5:26
    66%

    26 Truly, you will take up Saccuth your king and Kaiwan your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.