Verse 5

Now 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.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 31:19 : 19 While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.
  • Judg 8:27 : 27 Gideon used all this to make an ephod, which he put in his hometown of Ophrah. All the Israelites prostituted themselves to it by worshiping it there. It became a snare to Gideon and his family.
  • Judg 18:14 : 14 The 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.”
  • Judg 18:24 : 24 He 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?’”
  • Gen 31:30 : 30 Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?”
  • Exod 28:15 : 15 “You are to make a breastpiece for use in making decisions, the work of an artistic designer; you are to make it in the same fashion as the ephod; you are to make it of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen.
  • Exod 29:9 : 9 and wrap the sashes around Aaron and his sons and put headbands on them, and so the ministry of priesthood will belong to them by a perpetual ordinance. Thus you are to consecrate Aaron and his sons.
  • Hos 3:4 : 4 For the Israelites must live many days without a king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred fertility pillar, without ephod or idols.
  • Hos 8:14 : 14 Israel has forgotten his Maker and built royal palaces, and Judah has built many fortified cities. But I will send fire on their cities; it will consume their royal citadels.
  • Heb 5:4 : 4 And no one assumes this honor on his own initiative, but only when called to it by God, as in fact Aaron was.
  • Exod 24:5 : 5 He sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls for peace offerings to the LORD.
  • Exod 28:4 : 4 Now these are the garments that they are to make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a fitted tunic, a turban, and a sash. They are to make holy garments for your brother Aaron and for his sons, that they may minister as my priests.
  • 1 Sam 23:6 : 6 David Eludes Saul Again Now when Abiathar son of Ahimelech had fled to David at Keilah, he had brought with him an ephod.
  • 1 Kgs 12:31 : 31 He built temples on the high places and appointed as priests common people who were not Levites.
  • 1 Kgs 13:33-34 : 33 A Prophet Announces the End of Jeroboam’s Dynasty After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; he continued to appoint common people as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest. 34 This sin caused Jeroboam’s dynasty to come to an end and to be destroyed from the face of the earth.
  • Ezra 1:7 : 7 Then King Cyrus brought out the vessels of the LORD’s temple which Nebuchadnezzar had brought from Jerusalem and had displayed in the temple of his gods.