Judges 18:19

World English Bible (2000)

They said to him, "Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?"

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  • Judg 17:10 : 10 Micah said to him, "Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten [pieces] of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your food." So the Levite went in.
  • Job 21:5 : 5 Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
  • Job 29:9 : 9 The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
  • Mic 7:16 : 16 The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.
  • Prov 30:32 : 32 "If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth.
  • Matt 23:9 : 9 Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.
  • Job 40:4-5 : 4 "Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. 5 I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further."
  • 2 Kgs 6:21 : 21 The king of Israel said to Elisha, when he saw them, "My father, shall I strike them? Shall I strike them?"
  • 2 Kgs 8:8-9 : 8 The king said to Hazael, "Take a present in your hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire of Yahweh by him, saying, 'Will I recover from this sickness?'" 9 So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, "Your son Benhadad king of Syria has sent me to you, saying, 'Will I recover from this sickness?'"
  • 2 Kgs 13:14 : 14 Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness of which he died: and Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him, and said, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!"

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  • Judg 18:20-21
    2 verses
    82%

    20 The priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the engraved image, and went in the midst of the people.

    21 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the livestock and the goods before them.

  • Judg 18:17-18
    2 verses
    81%

    17 The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men girt with weapons of war.

    18 When these went into Micah's house, and fetched the engraved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, "What are you doing?"

  • Judg 18:2-6
    5 verses
    80%

    2 The children of Dan sent of their family five men from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said to them, "Go, explore the land!" They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

    3 When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; and they turned aside there, and said to him, "Who brought you here? What do you do in this place? What do you have here?"

    4 He said to them, "Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I am become his priest."

    5 They said to him, "Please ask counsel of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous."

    6 The priest said to them, "Go in peace. Your way in which you go is before Yahweh."

  • Judg 17:7-13
    7 verses
    77%

    7 There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he lived there.

    8 The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to live where he could find [a place], and he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he traveled.

    9 Micah said to him, "Where did you come from?" He said to him, "I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I am looking for a place to live."

    10 Micah said to him, "Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten [pieces] of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your food." So the Levite went in.

    11 The Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man was to him as one of his sons.

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

    13 Then Micah said, "Now know I that Yahweh will do good to me, since I have a Levite to my priest."

  • Judg 17:4-5
    2 verses
    76%

    4 When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred [pieces] of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made of it an engraved image and a molten image: and it was in the house of Micah.

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

  • Judg 18:13-15
    3 verses
    74%

    13 They passed there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.

    14 Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered, and said to their brothers, "Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and an engraved image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do."

    15 They turned aside there, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.

  • 1 Sam 2:28
    72%

    28 Did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? Did I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?

  • Num 16:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9 Is it a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of Yahweh, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;

    10 and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? and do you seek the priesthood also?

  • Judg 18:23-25
    3 verses
    71%

    23 They cried to the children of Dan. They turned their faces, and said to Micah, "What ails you, that you come with such a company?"

    24 He said, "You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and have gone away, and what more do I have? How then do you say to me, 'What ails you?'"

    25 The children of Dan said to him, "Don't let your voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall on you, and you lose your life, with the lives of your household."

  • Num 18:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 Yahweh said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your fathers' house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

    2 Your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, bring near with you, that they may be joined to you, and minister to you: but you and your sons with you shall be before the tent of the testimony.

  • Jer 26:17
    71%

    17 Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spoke to all the assembly of the people, saying,

  • 2 Chr 13:9
    70%

    9 Haven't you driven out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and made priests for yourselves after the ways of the peoples of [other] lands? so that whoever comes to consecrate himself with a young bull and seven rams, the same may be a priest of [those who are] no gods.

  • 1 Sam 2:36
    70%

    36 It shall happen, that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, "Please put me into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread."'"

  • Exod 18:19
    69%

    19 Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.

  • Num 27:20
    69%

    20 You shall put of your honor on him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may obey.

  • Judg 18:27
    69%

    27 They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and secure, and struck them with the edge of the sword; and they burnt the city with fire.

  • 1 Sam 1:17
    69%

    17 Then Eli answered, "Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him."

  • Exod 18:23
    69%

    23 If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all of these people also will go to their place in peace."

  • Judg 19:18
    68%

    18 He said to him, "We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim. I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem Judah. I am going to the house of Yahweh; and there is no man who takes me into his house.

  • 1 Sam 14:19
    68%

    19 It happened, while Saul talked to the priest, that the tumult that was in the camp of the Philistines went on and increased: and Saul said to the priest, "Withdraw your hand!"

  • Exod 19:6
    68%

    6 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.' These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."

  • 2 Kgs 6:3
    68%

    3 One said, "Please be pleased to go with your servants." He answered, "I will go."

  • Deut 1:14
    68%

    14 You answered me, and said, "The thing which you have spoken is good [for us] to do."

  • 1 Sam 2:15
    68%

    15 Yes, before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, "Give meat to roast for the priest; for he will not accept boiled meat from you, but raw."

  • Judg 19:20
    67%

    20 The old man said, "Peace be to you; howsoever let all your wants lie on me; only don't lodge in the street."

  • Num 18:6
    67%

    6 I, behold, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are a gift, given to Yahweh, to do the service of the Tent of Meeting.

  • Deut 18:5
    67%

    5 For Yahweh your God has chosen him out of all your tribes, to stand to minister in the name of Yahweh, him and his sons for ever.

  • Deut 17:9
    67%

    9 and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days: and you shall inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of judgment.

  • Ezek 24:19
    67%

    19 The people said to me, Won't you tell us what these things are to us, that you do so?

  • Ezek 14:1
    67%

    1 Then came certain of the elders of Israel to me, and sat before me.

  • Judg 18:8
    67%

    8 They came to their brothers to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brothers said to them, "What do you say?"