Judges 18:4

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He told them what Micah had done for him, saying,“He hired me and I became his priest.”

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  • Judg 17:10 : 10 Micah said to him,“Stay with me. Become my adviser and priest. I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, plus clothes and food.”
  • Judg 17:12 : 12 Micah paid the Levite; the young man became his priest and lived in Micah’s house.
  • Prov 28:21 : 21 To show partiality is terrible, for a person will transgress over the smallest piece of bread.
  • Isa 56:11 : 11 The dogs have big appetites; they are never full. They are shepherds who have no understanding; they all go their own way, each one looking for monetary gain.
  • Ezek 13:19 : 19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread. You have put to death people who should not die and kept alive those who should not live by your lies to my people, who listen to lies!
  • Hos 4:8-9 : 8 They feed on the sin offerings of my people; their appetites long for their iniquity! 9 I will deal with the people and priests together: I will punish them both for their ways, and I will repay them for their deeds.
  • Mal 1:10 : 10 “I wish that one of you would close the temple doors, so that you no longer would light useless fires on my altar. I am not pleased with you,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“and I will no longer accept an offering from you.
  • John 10:12-13 : 12 The hired hand, who is not a shepherd and does not own sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep and runs away. So the wolf attacks the sheep and scatters them. 13 Because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep, he runs away.
  • Acts 8:18-21 : 18 Now Simon, when he saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, offered them money, 19 saying,“Give me this power too, so that everyone I place my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.” 20 But Peter said to him,“May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could acquire God’s gift with money! 21 You have no share or part in this matter because your heart is not right before God!
  • Acts 20:33 : 33 I have desired no one’s silver or gold or clothing.
  • 1 Tim 3:3 : 3 not a drunkard, not violent, but gentle, not contentious, free from the love of money.
  • Titus 1:11 : 11 who must be silenced because they mislead whole families by teaching for dishonest gain what ought not to be taught.
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.
  • 2 Pet 2:14-15 : 14 Their eyes, full of adultery, never stop sinning; they entice unstable people. They have trained their hearts for greed, these cursed children! 15 By forsaking the right path they have gone astray, because they followed the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 17:7-13
    7 verses
    86%

    7Micah Hires a Professional There was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah. He was a Levite who had been temporarily residing among the tribe of Judah.

    8This man left the town of Bethlehem in Judah to find another place to live. He came to the Ephraimite hill country and made his way to Micah’s house.

    9Micah said to him,“Where do you come from?” He replied,“I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah. I am looking for a new place to live.”

    10Micah said to him,“Stay with me. Become my adviser and priest. I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, plus clothes and food.”

    11So the Levite agreed to stay with the man; the young man was like a son to Micah.

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

    13Micah said,“Now I know the LORD will make me rich, because I have this Levite as my priest.”

  • Judg 18:17-20
    4 verses
    80%

    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?”

    19They said to him,“Shut up! Put your hand over your mouth and come with us! You can be our adviser and priest. Wouldn’t it be better to be a priest for a whole Israelite tribe than for just one man’s family?”

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

  • Judg 17:1-5
    5 verses
    80%

    1Micah Makes His Own Religion There was a man named Micah from the Ephraimite hill country.

    2He said to his mother,“You know the eleven hundred pieces of silver which were stolen from you, about which I heard you pronounce a curse? Look here, I have the silver. I stole it, but now I am giving it back to you.” His mother said,“May the LORD reward you, my son!”

    3When he gave back to his mother the eleven hundred pieces of silver, his mother said,“I solemnly dedicate this silver to the LORD. It will be for my son’s benefit. We will use it to make a carved image and a metal image.”

    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.

  • Judg 18:3
    77%

    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?”

  • Judg 18:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5They said to him,“Seek a divine oracle for us, so we can know if we will be successful on our mission.”

    6The priest said to them,“Go with confidence. The LORD will be with you on your mission.”

  • Judg 18:13-15
    3 verses
    74%

    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.

  • Judg 18:24
    71%

    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 2:28
    71%

    28I chose your ancestor from all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer sacrifice on my altar, to burn incense, and to bear the ephod before me. I gave to your ancestor’s house all the fire offerings made by the Israelites.

  • Deut 18:5-7
    3 verses
    71%

    5For the LORD your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand and serve in his name permanently.

    6Suppose a Levite comes by his own free will from one of your villages, from any part of Israel where he is living, to the place the LORD chooses

    7and serves in the name of the LORD his God like his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD.

  • Num 16:10
    70%

    10He has brought you near and all your brothers, the sons of Levi, with you. Do you now seek the priesthood also?

  • Num 18:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6I myself have chosen your brothers the Levites from among the Israelites. They are given to you as a gift from the LORD, to perform the duties of the tent of meeting.

    7But you and your sons with you are responsible for your priestly duties, for everything at the altar and within the curtain. And you must serve. I give you the priesthood as a gift for service, but the unauthorized person who approaches must be put to death.”

  • Jer 26:17
    70%

    17Then some of the elders of Judah stepped forward and spoke to all the people gathered there. They said,

  • 2 Chr 13:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9But you banished the LORD’s priests, Aaron’s descendants, and the Levites, and appointed your own priests just as the surrounding nations do! Anyone who comes to consecrate himself with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of these fake gods!

    10But as for us, the LORD is our God and we have not rejected him. Aaron’s descendants serve as the LORD’s priests and the Levites assist them with the work.

  • 1 Sam 2:35-36
    2 verses
    69%

    35Then I will raise up for myself a faithful priest. He will do what is in my heart and soul. I will build for him a lasting dynasty and he will serve my chosen one for all time.

    36Everyone who remains in your house will come to bow before him for a little money and for a scrap of bread. Each will say,‘Assign me to a priestly task so I can eat a scrap of bread.’”

  • Num 3:6
    69%

    6“Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may serve him.

  • Mal 2:7
    69%

    7For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge of sacred things, and people should seek instruction from him because he is the messenger of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

  • Ezek 40:45
    68%

    45He said to me,“This chamber which faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple,

  • 1 Sam 2:15
    68%

    15Also, before they burned the fat the priest’s attendant would come and say to the person who was making the sacrifice,“Give some meat for the priest to roast! He won’t accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”

  • Neh 10:38
    68%

    38A priest of Aaron’s line will be with the Levites when the Levites collect the tithes, and the Levites will bring up a tenth of the tithes to the temple of our God, to the storerooms of the treasury.

  • Num 3:11
    68%

    11Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Mal 2:4
    68%

    4Then you will know that I sent this commandment to you so that my covenant may continue to be with Levi,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

  • Mal 2:1
    67%

    1The Sacrilege of the Priestly Message“Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.

  • Judg 19:18
    67%

    18The 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.

  • Judg 18:27
    67%

    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 18:31
    67%

    31They worshiped Micah’s carved image the whole time God’s authorized shrine was in Shiloh.

  • Jer 33:18
    67%

    18Nor will the Levitical priests ever lack someone to stand before me and continually offer up burnt offerings, sacrifice cereal offerings, and offer the other sacrifices.”’”

  • 1 Sam 2:11
    67%

    11Then Elkanah went back home to Ramah. Eli’s Sons Misuse Their Sacred OfficeThe boy was serving the LORD with the favor of Eli the priest.

  • Hos 4:9
    67%

    9I will deal with the people and priests together: I will punish them both for their ways, and I will repay them for their deeds.

  • Num 18:2
    67%

    2“Bring with you your brothers, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, so that they may join with you and minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.