Judges 18:20

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And 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.

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  • Judg 17:10 : 10 And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten [shekels] of silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So the Levite went in.
  • Prov 30:15 : 15 ¶ The horseleach hath two daughters, [crying], Give, give. There are three [things that] are never satisfied, [yea], four [things] say not, [It is] enough:
  • Isa 56:11 : 11 Yea, [they are] greedy dogs [which] can never have enough, and they [are] shepherds [that] cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
  • Ezek 13:19 : 19 And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear [your] lies?
  • Hos 4:3 : 3 Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
  • Acts 20:33 : 33 I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.
  • Phil 3:19 : 19 Whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is their] belly, and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 ¶ And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
  • 2 Pet 2:15-16 : 15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam [the son] of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; 16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 18:17-19
    3 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 in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men [that were] appointed with weapons of war.

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

    19And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: [is it] better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?

  • Judg 17:4-5
    2 verses
    77%

    4Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred [shekels] of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.

    5And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

  • Judg 18:13-15
    3 verses
    75%

    13And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah.

    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.

    15And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, [even] unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.

  • Judg 18:3-6
    4 verses
    73%

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

    4And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am 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.

    6And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the LORD [is] your way wherein ye go.

  • Judg 18:21
    73%

    21So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them.

  • 1 Sam 30:7
    72%

    7¶ And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.

  • Judg 17:10-13
    4 verses
    71%

    10And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten [shekels] 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 the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to [my] priest.

  • 1 Sam 2:28
    71%

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

  • 1 Sam 23:6
    70%

    6And 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 8:3
    70%

    3And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

  • Judg 18:30-31
    2 verses
    69%

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

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

  • Judg 8:27
    69%

    27And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, [even] in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.

  • 1 Sam 14:3
    69%

    3And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the LORD'S priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.

  • Lev 8:7-8
    2 verses
    69%

    7And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound [it] unto him therewith.

    8And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim.

  • 1 Chr 15:25
    68%

    25¶ So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the house of Obededom with joy.

  • 1 Chr 15:27
    68%

    27And David [was] clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also [had] upon him an ephod of linen.

  • 2 Chr 5:4
    68%

    4And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.

  • 1 Sam 2:35
    68%

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

  • Josh 22:30
    68%

    30¶ And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which [were] with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them.

  • 1 Sam 2:18
    68%

    18But Samuel ministered before the LORD, [being] a child, girded with a linen ephod.

  • 1 Sam 2:13-15
    3 verses
    68%

    13And the priests' custom with the people [was, that], when any man offered sacrifice, the priest's servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;

    14And he struck [it] into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.

    15Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw.

  • 2 Chr 13:9
    68%

    9Have ye not cast out the priests of the LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations 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.

  • 2 Kgs 17:32
    68%

    32So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places, which sacrificed for them in the houses of the high places.

  • 1 Sam 4:4
    68%

    4So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth [between] the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, [were] there with the ark of the covenant of God.

  • 2 Kgs 12:10
    68%

    10And it was [so], when they saw that [there was] much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD.

  • 1 Sam 14:19
    67%

    19And it came to pass, while Saul talked unto the priest, that the noise that [was] in the host of the Philistines went on and increased: and Saul said unto the priest, Withdraw thine hand.

  • Judg 18:24
    67%

    24And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what [is] this [that] ye say unto me, What aileth thee?

  • 1 Kgs 12:31
    67%

    31And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.

  • Judg 5:9
    67%

    9My heart [is] toward the governors of Israel, that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.

  • 2 Sam 15:29
    67%

    29Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they tarried there.

  • 1 Chr 29:9
    67%

    9Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

  • Judg 18:27
    67%

    27¶ And they took [the things] which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people [that were] at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.

  • 2 Chr 23:17
    67%

    17Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

  • Josh 3:3
    67%

    3And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it.

  • 1 Sam 22:18
    67%

    18And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.