Judges 18:14

Easy To Read Version

So the five men that had explored the land around Laish spoke. They said to their relatives, “There is an ephod [136] in one of these houses. And there are also household gods, a carved statue, and a silver idol. You know what to do—{go get them}.”

Cross References

Proverbs 19:27

If you stop listening to instructions, then you will keep making stupid mistakes.

Hosea 3:4

In the same way, the people of Israel will continue many days without a king or a leader. They will be without a sacrifice or a memorial stone. {\cf2\super [29]} They will be without an ephod {\cf2\super [30]} or a household god.

Judges 17:5

Micah had a temple for worshiping idols. He made an ephod [128] and some house idols. Then Micah chose one of his sons to be his priest. (

Judges 18:13

From that place, the 600 men traveled on to the hill country of Ephraim. Then they came to Micah’s house.

Judges 18:15

So they stopped at Micah’s house, where the young Levite man lived. They asked the young man how he was.

Judges 8:27

Gideon used the gold to make an ephod. [72] He put the ephod in his home town, the town called Ophrah. All the people of Israel worshiped the ephod. In this way, the people of Israel were not faithful to God—they worshiped the ephod. [73] The ephod became a trap that caused Gideon and his family to sin.

1 Samuel 14:28

One of the soldiers told Jonathan, “Your father forced the soldiers to make a special promise. Your father said that any man who eats today will be punished! {So the men have not eaten anything.} That is why the men are weak.”

1 Samuel 19:13

Michal took the household god and put clothes on it. Then she put that statue in the bed. She also put goats’ hair on its head.