Judges 18:4

World English Bible (2000)

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

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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.
  • Judg 17:12 : 12 Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
  • Prov 28:21 : 21 To show partiality is not good; yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
  • Isa 56:11 : 11 Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can't understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
  • Ezek 13:19 : 19 You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.
  • Hos 4:8-9 : 8 They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity. 9 It will be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds.
  • Mal 1:10 : 10 "Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you," says Yahweh of Armies, "neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
  • John 10:12-13 : 12 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them. 13 The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn't care for the sheep.
  • Acts 8:18-21 : 18 Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money, 19 saying, "Give me also this power, that whoever I lay 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 obtain the gift of God with money! 21 You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn't right before God.
  • Acts 20:33 : 33 I coveted no one's silver, or gold, or clothing.
  • 1 Tim 3:3 : 3 not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
  • Titus 1:11 : 11 whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain's sake.
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
  • 2 Pet 2:14-15 : 14 having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing; 15 forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

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  • Judg 17:7-13
    7 verses
    86%

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

    8The 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.

    9Micah 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."

    10Micah 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.

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

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

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

  • Judg 18:17-20
    4 verses
    80%

    17The 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.

    18When 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?"

    19They 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?"

    20The 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.

  • Judg 17:1-5
    5 verses
    80%

    1There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.

    2He said to his mother, "The eleven hundred [pieces] of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it." His mother said, "Blessed be my son of Yahweh."

    3He restored the eleven hundred [pieces] of silver to his mother; and his mother said, "I most certainly dedicate the silver to Yahweh from my hand for my son, to make an engraved image and a molten image. Now therefore I will restore it to you."

    4When 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.

    5The 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 18:3
    77%

    3When 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?"

  • Judg 18:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

  • Judg 18:13-15
    3 verses
    74%

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

    14Then 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."

    15They 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.

  • Judg 18:24
    71%

    24He 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?'"

  • 1 Sam 2:28
    71%

    28Did 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?

  • Deut 18:5-7
    3 verses
    71%

    5For 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.

    6If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel, where he lives as a foreigner, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose;

    7then he shall minister in the name of Yahweh his God, as all his brothers the Levites do, who stand there before Yahweh.

  • Num 16:10
    70%

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

  • Num 18:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6I, 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.

    7You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and you shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death."

  • Jer 26:17
    70%

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

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

    9Haven'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.

    10"But as for us, Yahweh is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and [we have] priests ministering to Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in their work:

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

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

    36It 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."'"

  • Num 3:6
    69%

    6"Bring the tribe of Levi near, and set them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister to him.

  • Mal 2:7
    69%

    7For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

  • Ezek 40:45
    68%

    45He said to me, This room, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the house;

  • 1 Sam 2:15
    68%

    15Yes, 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."

  • Neh 10:38
    68%

    38The priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes to the house of our God, to the rooms, into the treasure house.

  • Num 3:11
    68%

    11Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Mal 2:4
    68%

    4You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi," says Yahweh of Armies.

  • Mal 2:1
    67%

    1"Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.

  • Judg 19:18
    67%

    18He 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.

  • Judg 18:27
    67%

    27They 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.

  • Judg 18:31
    67%

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

  • Jer 33:18
    67%

    18neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to burn meal offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.

  • 1 Sam 2:11
    67%

    11Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child did minister to Yahweh before Eli the priest.

  • Hos 4:9
    67%

    9It will be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds.

  • Num 18:2
    67%

    2Your 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.