Judges 18:31

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They worshiped Micah’s carved image the whole time God’s authorized shrine was in Shiloh.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 18:1 : 1 The Tribes Meet at Shiloh The entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh and there they set up the tent of meeting. Though they had subdued the land,
  • Judg 19:18 : 18 The Levite said to him,“We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. That’s where I’m from. I had business in Bethlehem in Judah, but now I’m heading home. But no one has invited me into their home.
  • 1 Sam 1:3 : 3 This man would go up from his city year after year to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of Heaven’s Armies at Shiloh.(It was there that the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, served as the LORD’s priests.)
  • 1 Sam 4:4 : 4 So the army sent to Shiloh, and they took from there the ark of the covenant of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, who sits between the cherubim. Now the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phineas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
  • Jer 7:12 : 12 So, go to the place in Shiloh where I allowed myself to be worshiped in the early days. See what I did to it because of the wicked things my people Israel did.
  • Judg 21:21 : 21 and keep your eyes open. When you see the daughters of Shiloh coming out to dance in the celebration, jump out from the vineyards. Each one of you, catch yourself a wife from among the daughters of Shiloh and then go home to the land of Benjamin.

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  • Judg 18:30
    79%

    30The Danites worshiped the carved image. Jonathan, descendant of Gershom, son of Moses, and his descendants served as priests for the tribe of Dan until the time of the exile.

  • Judg 18:13-18
    6 verses
    79%

    13From there they traveled through the Ephraimite hill country and arrived at Micah’s house.

    14The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their kinsmen,“Do you realize that inside these houses are an ephod, some personal idols, a carved image, and a metal image? Decide now what you want to do.”

    15They stopped there, went inside the young Levite’s house(which belonged to Micah), and asked him how he was doing.

    16Meanwhile the six hundred Danites, fully armed, stood at the entrance to the gate.

    17The five men who had gone to spy out the land broke in and stole the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, while the priest was standing at the entrance to the gate with the six hundred fully armed men.

    18When these men broke into Micah’s house and stole the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, the priest said to them,“What are you doing?”

  • Judg 17:4-5
    2 verses
    78%

    4When he gave the silver back to his mother, she took two hundred pieces of silver to a silversmith, who made them into a carved image and a metal image. She then put them in Micah’s house.

    5Now this man Micah owned a shrine. He made an ephod and some personal idols and hired one of his sons to serve as a priest.

  • 2 Chr 33:7
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    7He put an idolatrous image he had made in God’s temple, about which God had said to David and to his son Solomon,“This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.

  • 1 Kgs 12:29-31
    3 verses
    74%

    29He put one in Bethel and the other in Dan.

    30This caused Israel to sin; the people went to Bethel and Dan to worship the calves.

    31He built temples on the high places and appointed as priests common people who were not Levites.

  • 2 Kgs 17:10-12
    3 verses
    73%

    10They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

    11They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the LORD had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the LORD angry.

    12They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the LORD’s command.

  • 2 Kgs 21:7
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    7He put an idol of Asherah he had made in the temple, about which the LORD had said to David and to his son Solomon,“This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29-30
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    29But each of these nations made its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived.

    30The people from Babylon made Succoth Benoth, the people from Cuth made Nergal, the people from Hamath made Ashima,

  • Judg 18:26-27
    2 verses
    72%

    26The Danites went on their way; when Micah realized they were too strong to resist, he turned around and went home.

    27Now the Danites took what Micah had made, as well as his priest, and came to Laish, where the people were undisturbed and unsuspecting. They struck them down with the sword and burned the city.

  • Judg 18:20-22
    3 verses
    71%

    20The priest was happy. He took the ephod, the personal idols, and the carved image and joined the group.

    21They turned and went on their way, but they walked behind the children, the cattle, and their possessions.

    22After they had gone a good distance from Micah’s house, Micah’s neighbors gathered together and caught up with the Danites.

  • Ps 106:19
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    19They made an image of a calf at Horeb, and worshiped a metal idol.

  • 2 Kgs 17:16
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    16They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God; they made two metal calves and an Asherah pole, bowed down to all the stars in the sky, and worshiped Baal.

  • Acts 7:41
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    41At that time they made an idol in the form of a calf, brought a sacrifice to the idol, and began rejoicing in the works of their hands.

  • Amos 5:26
    71%

    26You will pick up your images of Sikkuth, your king, and Kiyyun, your star god, which you made for yourselves,

  • Judg 18:24
    70%

    24He said,“You stole my gods that I made, as well as this priest, and then went away. What do I have left? How can you have the audacity to say to me,‘What do you want?’”

  • 1 Sam 5:2
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    2The Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the temple of Dagon, where they positioned it beside Dagon.

  • Jer 32:34
    69%

    34They set up their disgusting idols in the temple which I have claimed for my own and defiled it.

  • Ezek 23:39
    69%

    39On the same day they slaughtered their sons for their idols, they came to my sanctuary to desecrate it. This is what they have done in the middle of my house.

  • 2 Kgs 17:41
    69%

    41These nations are worshiping the LORD and at the same time serving their idols; their sons and grandsons do just as their fathers have done, to this very day.

  • 2 Kgs 17:32
    69%

    32At the same time they worshiped the LORD. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places.

  • Isa 46:6
    69%

    6Those who empty out gold from a purse and weigh out silver on the scale hire a metalsmith, who makes it into a god. They then bow down and worship it.

  • Judg 17:12
    69%

    12Micah paid the Levite; the young man became his priest and lived in Micah’s house.

  • Deut 27:15
    69%

    15‘Cursed is the one who makes a carved or metal image– something abhorrent to the LORD, the work of the craftsman– and sets it up in a secret place.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’

  • Judg 18:2-3
    2 verses
    69%

    2The Danites sent out from their whole tribe five representatives, capable men from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. They said to them,“Go, explore the land.” They came to the Ephraimite hill country and spent the night at Micah’s house.

    3As they approached Micah’s house, they recognized the accent of the young Levite. So they stopped there and said to him,“Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?”

  • 2 Chr 31:1
    68%

    1When all this was over, the Israelites who were in the cities of Judah went out and smashed the sacred pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and demolished all the high places and altars throughout Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh. Then all the Israelites returned to their own homes in their cities.

  • Isa 44:9
    68%

    9All who form idols are nothing; the things in which they delight are worthless. Their witnesses cannot see; they recognize nothing, so they are put to shame.

  • Hos 13:2
    68%

    2Even now they persist in sin! They make metal images for themselves, idols that they skillfully fashion from their own silver; all of them are nothing but the work of craftsmen! There is a saying about them:“Those who sacrifice to the calf idol are calf kissers!”

  • Neh 9:18
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    18even when they made a cast image of a calf for themselves and said,‘This is your God who brought you up from Egypt,’ or when they committed atrocious blasphemies.

  • Ezek 7:20
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    20They rendered the beauty of his ornaments into pride, and with it they made their abominable images– their detestable idols. Therefore I will render it filthy to them.

  • 2 Chr 24:18
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    18They abandoned the temple of the LORD God of their ancestors, and worshiped the Asherah poles and idols. Because of this sinful activity, God was angry with Judah and Jerusalem.

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    8Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the product of their own hands, what their own fingers have fashioned.

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    17With the rest of it he makes a god, his idol; he bows down to it and worships it. He prays to it, saying,‘Rescue me, for you are my god!’

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    2But the more I summoned them, the farther they departed from me. They sacrificed to the Baal idols and burned incense to images.