Judges 17:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ This man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and teraphim and installed one of his sons, who became his priest.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ And 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.

Common English Bible

⁵ This man Micah had his own sanctuary. He made a priestly vest and divine images and appointed one of his sons to be his personal priest.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ And he also separated in it a little shrine for the god. And he made an ephod and theraphim, that is, a priestly garment and idols. And he filled the hand of one of his sons, and he became his priest.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ And he separated also therein a little temple for the god, and made an ephod, and theraphim, that is to say, a priestly garment, and idols. And he filled the hand of one of his sons, and he became his priest.

Judges 17:5 Cross References

Genesis 31:19

Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father’s household gods.

Genesis 31:30

Even though you had to go because you longed greatly for your father’s house, why did you steal my gods?”

1 Kings 12:31

He also made houses on high places and appointed priests from among all the people who were not Levites.

1 Kings 12:32

Jeroboam appointed a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like the festival that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; so he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.

Ezra 1:7

King Cyrus himself brought out the vessels of the house of the Lord that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods.

Exodus 24:5

He sent young men of the Israelites, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed oxen as offerings of well-being to the Lord.

Exodus 28:15

“You shall make a breastpiece of judgment, in skilled work; you shall make it in the style of the ephod; of gold, of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and of fine twisted linen you shall make it.

Exodus 28:4

These are the vestments that they shall make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a checkered tunic, a turban, and a sash. When they make these sacred vestments for your brother Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests,

Exodus 29:9

and you shall gird them, Aaron and his sons, with sashes and tie headdresses on them, and the priesthood shall be theirs by a perpetual ordinance. You shall then ordain Aaron and his sons.

Isaiah 44:13

The carpenter stretches a line, marks it out with a stylus, fashions it with planes, and marks it with a compass; he makes it in human form, with human beauty, to be set up in a shrine.

Ezekiel 21:21

For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the fork in the two roads, to use divination; he shakes the arrows; he consults the teraphim; he inspects the liver.

Ezekiel 21:26

thus says the Lord God: Remove the turban, take off the crown; things shall not remain as they are. Exalt that which is low; humble that which is high.

Hosea 3:4

For the Israelites shall remain many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or teraphim.

Hosea 8:14

Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities, but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour his strongholds.

Numbers 3:10

But you shall enroll Aaron and his descendants; it is they who shall attend to the priesthood, and any outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”

Hebrews 5:4

And one does not presume to take this honor but takes it only when called by God, just as Aaron was.

Judges 17:4

So when he returned the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into an idol of cast metal, and it was in the house of Micah.

Judges 18:14

Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land (that is, Laish) said to their comrades, “Do you know that in these buildings there are an ephod, teraphim, and an idol of cast metal? Now, therefore, consider what you will do.”

Judges 18:24

He replied, “You take my gods that I made and the priest and go away, and what have I left? How then can you ask me, ‘What is the matter?’ ”

Judges 18:30

Then the Danites set up the idol for themselves. Jonathan son of Gershom son of Moses and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the time the land went into captivity.

Judges 8:27

Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his town, in Ophrah, and all Israel prostituted themselves to it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.

1 Samuel 19:13

Michal took an idol and laid it on the bed; she put a net of goats’ hair on its head and covered it with the clothes.

1 Samuel 23:6

When Abiathar son of Ahimelech fled to David at Keilah, he came down with an ephod in his hand.