Judges 17:5

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And the man Micah had an house of goddes, and made an Ephod and Theraphim, and consecrated one of his sonnes, which became his prieste.

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  • Gen 31:19 : 19 But Laban was gone to sheare his sheepe: and Rachel had stolen her fathers images.
  • Judg 8:27 : 27 And Gedeon made an Ephod therof, and put it in his citie Ephrah: And all Israel went a whoryng after it in the same place, which thing became a ruyne vnto Gedeon and to his house.
  • Judg 18:14 : 14 Then aunswered the fiue men that went to spye out the countrey of Lais, and saide vnto their brethren: Wot ye not that there is in these houses an Ephod, Theraphim, and a grauen and a moulten image? Nowe therfore consider what ye haue to do.
  • Judg 18:24 : 24 And he sayd: Ye haue taken away my goddes which I made, and also ye priest, and go your wayes: and what haue I more? How then saye ye vnto me, What ayleth thee?
  • Gen 31:30 : 30 And nowe though thou wouldest nedes be gone away, because thou sore longest after thy fathers house, yet wherfore hast thou stollen my gods?
  • Exod 28:15 : 15 And thou shalt make the brestlap of iudgement with brodered worke: euen after the worke of the ephod thou shalt make it namely of golde, blewe silke, purple, scarlet, and whyte twined silke.
  • Exod 29:9 : 9 And gyrde them with gyrdels, aswell Aaron as his sonnes, and put the bonnettes on them, and the priestes office shalbe theirs for a perpetuall lawe, and thou shalt fill the handes of Aaron, and the handes of his sonnes.
  • Hos 3:4 : 4 For the chyldren of Israel shall sit a great whyle without kyng, without prince, without sacrifice, without image, without Ephod, and without Theraphim.
  • Hos 8:14 : 14 For Israel hath forgotten him that made him, & hath builded faire palaces, and Iuda hath encreased strong cities: but I wyll sende a fire into their cities, and it shall consume their palaces.
  • Heb 5:4 : 4 And no man taketh the honour vnto hym selfe, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.
  • Exod 24:5 : 5 And sent young men of the children of Israel, whiche brought burnt offeringes, and offered peace offeringes of oxen vnto the Lorde.
  • Exod 28:4 : 4 These are the garmentes which they shall make, a brestlap and an ephod, a tunicle, a brodered coate, a miter, and a girdle, these holy garmentes shall they make for Aaron thy brother and his sonnes, that they may minister vnto me in the priestes office.
  • 1 Sam 23:6 : 6 And when Abiathar the sonne of Ahimelech fled to Dauid to Keila, he brought an Ephod with him in his hande.
  • 1 Kgs 12:31 : 31 And he made an house of hill aulters, and made priestes of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sonnes of Leui.
  • 1 Kgs 13:33-34 : 33 Howbeit, for all that Ieroboam conuerted not from his wicked way: but turned backe, and made of the lowest of the people priestes of the hie places: And who so pleased him, he filled his hand, and he became priest of the hie places. 34 And this thing turned to sinne vnto the house of Ieroboam, euen to destroy him, and to bring him to naught from of the face of the earth.
  • Ezra 1:7 : 7 And king Cyrus brought foorth the vessels of the house of the Lord: which Nabuchodonosor had taken out of Hierusalem, and had put in the house of his God.

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  • Judg 17:6-13
    8 verses
    85%

    6In those dayes there was no kyng in Israel, but euery man dyd that which was good in his owne eyes.

    7And there was a young man out of Bethlehem Iuda, of the kynred of Iuda, which young man was a Leuite, & soiourned there.

    8And the man departed out of the citie of Bethlehem Iuda, to go dwell where he coulde fynde a conuenient place: And he came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah as he iourneyed.

    9And Micah sayde vnto him: Whence comest thou? The Leuite aunswered hym: I am of Bethlehem Iuda, and go to dwell where I may fynde a place.

    10And 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.

    11And ye Leuite was content to dwell with the man, and was vnto hym as one of his owne sonnes.

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

    13Then sayde Micah: Now I am sure that the Lord will be good vnto me, seing I haue a Leuite to my prieste.

  • Judg 18:17-20
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    83%

    17And the fiue men that went to spye out the lande, went in thyther, & toke the graue image, & the Ephod, Theraphim, and the moulten image: (And the priest stoode in the entryng of the gate with the sixe hundred men that were appointed with weapons of warre.)

    18Whyle the other went into Micahs house, and fet the carued image, the Ephod, Theraphim, and the moulten image: Then saide the priest vnto them, what do ye?

    19They aunswered hym: Holde thy peace, lay thine hande vpon thy mouth, and come with vs, to be our father and priest: Is it better for thee to be a priest vnto the house of one man, then to be a priest vnto a tribe or kynred in Israel?

    20And the priestes hearte was glad, and toke the Ephod, and Theraphim, and the grauen image, and went in the middest of the people.

  • Judg 17:1-4
    4 verses
    82%

    1There was a man of mount Ephraim, named Micah.

    2And he sayde vnto his mother: The seuen hundred siluerlynges that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest it in myne eares, behold the syluer is with me, I toke it away. And his mother sayd: Blessed be thou my sonne, in the Lorde.

    3And when he had restored the leuen hundreth syluerlynges to his mother, his mother sayde: I had dedicated the syluer vnto the Lorde of myne hande for thee my sonne, that thou shouldest make a grauen and moulten image: Now therfore I will geue it thee agayne.

    4And when he restored the money vnto his mother, his mother toke two hundreth syluerlynges, and gaue them the founder, which made therof a grauen moulten image, and it was in the house of Micah.

  • Judg 18:2-5
    4 verses
    80%

    2And the children of Dan sent of their kynred fyue actiue men in feates of warre out of their coastes, euen out of Zaraah & Esthaol, to viewe the lande and searche it out, and sayde vnto them: Go, and searche out the lande. Which whan they came to mount Ephraim, euen to the house of Micah, they lodged there.

    3And when they were in the house of Micah, they knewe the voyce of the young man the Leuite: And when they turned in thyther, they sayde vnto him: Who brought thee thyther? What makest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?

    4And he aunswered them: Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hyred me, and I am become his priest.

    5And they sayd vnto hym agayne: Aske counsell now of God, that we may knowe whether the way which we go shalbe prousperous, or no.

  • Judg 18:30-31
    2 verses
    78%

    30And the chyldren of Dan set them vp the grauen image: And Ionathan the sonne of Gersom, the sonne of Manasses, and his sonnes, were the priestes in the tribe of Dan, vntyl the day of the captiuitie of the lande.

    31And they set them vp the carued image which Micah made, all the while that the house of God was in Silo.

  • Judg 18:13-15
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    78%

    13And they went thence vnto mount Ephraim, & came vnto the house of Micah.

    14Then aunswered the fiue men that went to spye out the countrey of Lais, and saide vnto their brethren: Wot ye not that there is in these houses an Ephod, Theraphim, and a grauen and a moulten image? Nowe therfore consider what ye haue to do.

    15And they turned thytherwarde, and came to the house of the young man the Leuite, euen vnto the house of Micah, and saluted hym peaceablie.

  • 1 Kgs 12:31
    72%

    31And he made an house of hill aulters, and made priestes of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sonnes of Leui.

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

    29Howebeit euery nation made them gods of their owne, and put them in the houses of the hygh places whiche the Samaritans had made, euery nation in their cities wherin they dwelt.

    30The men of Babylon made Socoth Benoth, & the men of Cuth made Nergal, & the men of Hamath made Asima,

  • 2 Kgs 17:32
    71%

    32And so they feared the Lorde, & made them priestes of the basist of them, which sacrifised for them in the houses of the hygh places.

  • 2 Chr 13:9
    71%

    9And haue ye not cast out the priestes of the Lorde the sonnes of Aaron and the Leuites, and haue made you priestes after the maner of the nations of other landes? so that whosoeuer commeth & consecrateth his hande with a young oxe and seuen rammes, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.

  • 1 Sam 2:28
    70%

    28And I chose him out of al the tribes of Israel to be my priest, for to offer vppon mine aulter, and to burne incense, and to weare an Ephod before me: and I gaue vnto the house of thy father, all the offerynges made by fire of the chyldren of Israel.

  • Judg 18:24
    70%

    24And he sayd: Ye haue taken away my goddes which I made, and also ye priest, and go your wayes: and what haue I more? How then saye ye vnto me, What ayleth thee?

  • Judg 8:27
    70%

    27And Gedeon made an Ephod therof, and put it in his citie Ephrah: And all Israel went a whoryng after it in the same place, which thing became a ruyne vnto Gedeon and to his house.

  • 2 Chr 11:15
    69%

    15And he ordayned him priestes for the high places, for the deuils, and for the calues which he had made.

  • 2 Chr 33:7
    69%

    7And he put the carued image and an idol whiche he had made, in the house of God: Of which house, God had sayd to Dauid and to Solomon his sonne, In this house and in Hierusalem whiche I haue chosen afore all the tribes of Israel will I put my name for euer.

  • Judg 18:26-27
    2 verses
    69%

    26And so the children of Dan went their wayes: And when Micah sawe that they were to strong for hym, he turned and went backe vnto his house.

    27And they toke the thinges which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came vnto Lais, euen vnto a people that were at rest and without mystrust, and smote them with the edge of the sword, & burnt the citie with fire.

  • 1 Sam 1:3
    69%

    3And this man went vp out of his citie euery yere, to worship and to sacrifice vnto the Lord of hoastes in Silo, where were the two sonnes of Eli, Hophni and Phinehes, the Lordes priestes.

  • 2 Kgs 17:17
    68%

    17And they sacrificed their sonnes and their daughters in fire, and vsed witchcraftes, & enchauntmentes, euen selling them selues to worke wickednesse in the sight of the Lorde, and to anger him.

  • Jer 26:17
    68%

    17The elders also of the lande stoode vp, and sayde thus vnto all the people.

  • 1 Sam 2:35
    68%

    35And I wyll stirre me vp a faythfull priest, yt shall do according to my heart and minde, and I wil builde him a sure house, and he shall walke before mine annoynted for euer.

  • Num 5:10
    68%

    10And euery mans halowed thynges shalbe his: whatsoeuer any man geueth the priest, it shalbe his.

  • Exod 28:4
    68%

    4These are the garmentes which they shall make, a brestlap and an ephod, a tunicle, a brodered coate, a miter, and a girdle, these holy garmentes shall they make for Aaron thy brother and his sonnes, that they may minister vnto me in the priestes office.

  • Amos 5:26
    68%

    26But ye haue borne Siccuth your king, and Chiun your images, and the starre of your gods, which ye made to your selues.

  • 1 Chr 9:41
    68%

    41And the sonnes of Micah, were: Pithon, Melech, and Thahrea.

  • 1 Sam 2:11
    68%

    11And Elkana went to Ramath to his house, and the lad dyd minister vnto the Lorde before Eli the priest.

  • 1 Sam 2:18
    67%

    18But the childe Samuel ministred before the Lorde, girded with a linnen Ephod.

  • 1 Chr 8:35
    67%

    35And the sonnes of Micah were Piton, Melech, Tharea, and Ahaz.

  • Lev 27:14
    67%

    14If any man dedicate his house to be holy vnto the Lorde, the priest shall set it, whether it be good or bad: and as the priest hath set it, so shall it stande.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
    67%

    12For they serued most vile idols, wherof the Lorde had sayd vnto them: Ye shall do no such thing.