Verse 19

They 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?”

Referenced Verses

• 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.”
• Job 21:5 : 5 Look at me and be appalled; put your hands over your mouths.
• Job 29:9 : 9 the chief men refrained from talking and covered their mouths with their hands;
• Mic 7:16 : 16 Nations will see this and be disappointed by all their strength, they will put their hands over their mouths, and act as if they were deaf.
• Prov 30:32 : 32 If you have done foolishly by exalting yourself or if you have planned evil, put your hand over your mouth!
• Matt 23:9 : 9 And call no one your‘father’ on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.
• Job 40:4-5 : 4 “Indeed, I am completely unworthy– how could I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth to silence myself. 5 I have spoken once, but I cannot answer; twice, but I will say no more.”
• 2 Kgs 6:21 : 21 When the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha,“Should I strike them down, my master?”
• 2 Kgs 8:8-9 : 8 So the king told Hazael,“Take a gift and go visit the prophet. Request from him an oracle from the LORD. Ask him,‘Will I recover from this sickness?’” 9 So Hazael went to visit Elisha. He took along a gift, as well as forty camel loads of all the fine things of Damascus. When he arrived, he stood before him and said,“Your son, King Ben Hadad of Syria, has sent me to you with this question,‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”
• 2 Kgs 13:14 : 14 Elisha Makes One Final Prophecy Now Elisha had a terminal illness. King Joash of Israel went down to visit him. He wept before him and said,“My father, my father! The chariot and horsemen of Israel!”