Judges 18:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And he saith unto them, `Thus and thus hath Micah done to me; and he hireth me, and I am to him for a priest.'

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Referenced Verses

  • Judg 17:10 : 10 And Micah saith to him, `Dwell with me, and be to me for a father and for a priest, and I give to thee ten silverlings for the days, and a suit of garments, and thy sustenance;' and the Levite goeth `in'.
  • Judg 17:12 : 12 And Micah consecrateth the hand of the Levite, and the young man is to him for a priest, and he is in the house of Micah,
  • Prov 28:21 : 21 To discern faces is not good, And for a piece of bread doth a man transgress.
  • Isa 56:11 : 11 And the dogs `are' strong of desire, They have not known sufficiency, And they `are' shepherds! They have not known understanding, All of them to their own way they did turn, Each to his dishonest gain from his quarter:
  • Ezek 13:19 : 19 Yea, ye pierce Me concerning My people, For handfuls of barley, And for pieces of bread, to put to death Souls that should not die, And to keep alive souls that should not live, By your lying to My people -- hearkening to lies.
  • Hos 4:8-9 : 8 The sin of My people they do eat, And unto their iniquity lift up their soul. 9 And it hath been, like people, like priest, And I have charged on it its ways, And its habitual doings I return to it.
  • Mal 1:10 : 10 Who `is' even among you, And he shutteth the two-leaved doors? Yea, ye do not kindle Mine altar for nought, I have no pleasure in you, said Jehovah of Hosts, And a present I do not accept of your hand.
  • John 10:12-13 : 12 and the hireling, and not being a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, doth behold the wolf coming, and doth leave the sheep, and doth flee; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep; 13 and the hireling doth flee because he is an hireling, and is not caring for the sheep.
  • Acts 8:18-21 : 18 And Simon, having beheld that through the laying on of the hands of the apostles, the Holy Spirit is given, brought before them money, 19 saying, `Give also to me this authority, that on whomsoever I may lay the hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit.' 20 And Peter said unto him, `Thy silver with thee -- may it be to destruction! because the gift of God thou didst think to possess through money; 21 thou hast neither part nor lot in this thing, for thy heart is not right before God;
  • Acts 20:33 : 33 `The silver or gold or garments of no one did I covet;
  • 1 Tim 3:3 : 3 not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money,
  • Titus 1:11 : 11 whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.
  • 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.
  • 2 Pet 2:14-15 : 14 having eyes full of adultery, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having an heart exercised in covetousnesses, children of a curse, 15 having forsaken a right way, they did go astray, having followed in the way of Balaam the `son' of Bosor, who a reward of unrighteousness did love,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 17:7-13
    7 verses
    86%

    7And there is a young man of Beth-Lehem-Judah, of the family of Judah, and he `is' a Levite, and he `is' a sojourner there.

    8And the man goeth out of the city, out of Beth-Lehem-Judah, to sojourn where he doth find, and cometh to the hill-country of Ephraim, unto the house of Micah, to work his way.

    9And Micah saith to him, `Whence comest thou?' and he saith unto him, `A Levite `am' I, of Beth-Lehem-Judah, and I am going to sojourn where I do find.'

    10And Micah saith to him, `Dwell with me, and be to me for a father and for a priest, and I give to thee ten silverlings for the days, and a suit of garments, and thy sustenance;' and the Levite goeth `in'.

    11And the Levite is willing to dwell with the man, and the young man is to him as one of his sons.

    12And Micah consecrateth the hand of the Levite, and the young man is to him for a priest, and he is in the house of Micah,

    13and Micah saith, `Now I have known that Jehovah doth good to me, for the Levite hath been to me for a priest.'

  • Judg 18:17-20
    4 verses
    80%

    17yea, the five men, those going to traverse the land, go up -- they have come in thither -- they have taken the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image -- and the priest is standing at the opening of the gate, and the six hundred men who are girded with weapons of war --

    18yea, these have entered the house of Micah, and take the graven image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image; and the priest saith unto them, `What are ye doing?'

    19and they say to him, `Keep silent, lay thy hand on thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us for a father and for a priest: is it better thy being a priest to the house of one man, or thy being priest to a tribe and to a family in Israel?'

    20And the heart of the priest is glad, and he taketh the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and goeth into the midst of the people,

  • Judg 17:1-5
    5 verses
    80%

    1And there is a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name `is' Micah,

    2and he saith to his mother, `The eleven hundred silverlings which have been taken of thine, and `of which' thou hast sworn, and also spoken in mine ears; lo, the silver `is' with me, I have taken it;' and his mother saith, `Blessed `is' my son of Jehovah.'

    3And he giveth back the eleven hundred silverlings to his mother, and his mother saith, `I had certainly sanctified the silver to Jehovah, from my hand, for my son, to make a graven image, and a molten image; and now, I give it back to thee.'

    4And he giveth back the money to his mother, and his mother taketh two hundred silverlings, and giveth them to a refiner, and he maketh them a graven image, and a molten image, and it is in the house of Micah.

    5As to the man Micah, he hath a house of gods, and he maketh an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrateth the hand of one of his sons, and he is to him for a priest;

  • Judg 18:3
    77%

    3They `are' with the household of Micah, and they have discerned the voice of the young man, the Levite, and turn aside there, and say to him, `Who hath brought thee hither? and what art thou doing in this `place?' and what to thee here?'

  • Judg 18:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5And they say to him, `Ask, we pray thee, at God, and we know whether our way is prosperous on which we are going.'

    6And the priest saith to them, `Go in peace; over-against Jehovah `is' your way in which ye go.'

  • Judg 18:13-15
    3 verses
    74%

    13And they pass over thence `to' the hill-country of Ephraim, and come in unto the house of Micah.

    14And the five men, those going to traverse the land of Laish, answer and say unto their brethren, `Have ye known that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and graven image, and molten image? and now, know what ye do.'

    15And they turn aside thither, and come in unto the house of the young man the Levite, the house of Micah, and ask of him of welfare, --

  • Judg 18:24
    71%

    24And he saith, `My gods which I made ye have taken, and the priest, and ye go; and what to me more? and what `is' this ye say unto me, What -- to thee!'

  • 1 Sam 2:28
    71%

    28even to choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to Me for a priest, to go up on Mine altar, to make a perfume, to bear an ephod before Me, and I give to the house of thy father all the fire-offerings of the sons of Israel?

  • Deut 18:5-7
    3 verses
    71%

    5for on him hath Jehovah thy God fixed, out of all thy tribes, to stand to serve in the name of Jehovah, He and his sons continually.

    6`And when the Levite cometh from one of thy cities out of all Israel, where he hath sojourned, and hath come with all the desire of his soul unto the place which Jehovah doth choose,

    7then he hath ministered in the name of Jehovah his God, like all his brethren, the Levites, who are standing there before Jehovah,

  • Num 16:10
    70%

    10yea, He doth bring thee near, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee -- and ye have sought also the priesthood!

  • Num 18:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6`And I, lo, I have taken your brethren the Levites from the midst of the sons of Israel; to you a gift they are given by Jehovah, to do the service of the tent of meeting;

    7and thou, and thy sons with thee, do keep your priesthood, for everything of the altar, and within the vail, and ye have served; a service of gift I make your priesthood; and the stranger who is coming near is put to death.'

  • Jer 26:17
    70%

    17And certain of the elders of the land rise up, and speak unto all the assembly of the people, saying,

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

    9`Have ye not cast out the priests of Jehovah, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and make to you priests like the peoples of the lands? every one who hath come to fill his hand with a bullock, a son of the herd, and seven rams, even he hath been a priest to No-gods!

    10`As for us, Jehovah `is' our God, and we have not forsaken Him, and priests are ministering to Jehovah, sons of Aaron and the Levites, in the work,

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

    35and I have raised up for Me a stedfast priest; as in My heart and in My soul he doth do; and I have built for him a stedfast house, and he hath walked up and down before Mine anointed all the days;

    36and it hath been, every one who is left in thy house doth come in to bow himself to him, for a wage of silver, and a cake of bread, and hath said, Admit me, I pray thee, unto one of the priest's offices, to eat a morsel of bread.'

  • Num 3:6
    69%

    6`Bring near the tribe of Levi, and thou hast caused it to stand before Aaron the priest, and they have served him,

  • Mal 2:7
    69%

    7For the lips of a priest preserve knowledge, And law they do seek from his mouth, For a messenger of Jehovah of Hosts he `is'.

  • Ezek 40:45
    68%

    45And he speaketh unto me: `This chamber, whose front `is' southward, `is' for priests keeping charge of the house;

  • 1 Sam 2:15
    68%

    15Also before they make perfume with the fat -- then hath the priest's servant come in, and said to the man who is sacrificing, `Give flesh to roast for the priest, and he doth not take of thee flesh boiled, but raw;'

  • Neh 10:38
    68%

    38and the priest, son of Aaron, hath been with the Levites in the tithing of the Levites, and the Levites bring up the tithe of the tithe to the house of our God unto the chambers, to the treasure-house;

  • Num 3:11
    68%

    11And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

  • Mal 2:4
    68%

    4And ye have known that I have sent unto you this charge, For My covenant being with Levi, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

  • Mal 2:1
    67%

    1And now, to you `is' this charge, O priests,

  • Judg 19:18
    67%

    18And he saith unto him, `We are passing over from Beth-Lehem-Judah unto the sides of the hill-country of Ephraim -- thence I `am', and I go unto Beth-Lehem-Judah; and to the house of Jehovah I am going, and there is no man gathering me into the house,

  • Judg 18:27
    67%

    27And they have taken that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and come in against Laish, against a people quiet and confident, and smite them by the mouth of the sword, and the city have burnt with fire,

  • Judg 18:31
    67%

    31And they appoint for them the graven image of Micah, which he had made, all the days of the house of God being in Shiloh.

  • Jer 33:18
    67%

    18And to the priests -- the Levites, Not cut off from before Me is one, Causing a burnt-offering to ascend, And perfuming a present, and making sacrifice -- all the days.'

  • 1 Sam 2:11
    67%

    11And Elkanah goeth to Ramath, unto his house, and the youth hath been serving Jehovah, `in' the presence of Eli the priest;

  • Hos 4:9
    67%

    9And it hath been, like people, like priest, And I have charged on it its ways, And its habitual doings I return to it.

  • Num 18:2
    67%

    2and also thy brethren, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of thy father, bring near with thee, and they are joined unto thee, and serve thee, even thou and thy sons with thee, before the tent of the testimony.