Judges 18:20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then the priest accepted the offer. He took the ephod, the teraphim, and the idol and went along with the people.

Cross References

Proverbs 30:15

The leech has two daughters; “Give, give,” they cry. Three things are never satisfied; four never say, “Enough”:

Isaiah 56:11

The dogs have a mighty appetite; they never have enough. The shepherds also have no understanding; they have all turned to their own way, to their own gain, one and all.

Ezekiel 13:19

You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, putting to death those who should not die and keeping alive those who should not live, by your lies to my people, who listen to lies.

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.

Hosea 4:3

Therefore the land mourns, and all who live in it languish; together with the wild animals and the birds of the air, even the fish of the sea are perishing.

Leviticus 26:1

“You shall make for yourselves no idols and erect no carved images or pillars, and you shall not place figured stones in your land, to worship at them, for I am the Lord your God.

Acts 20:33

I coveted no one’s silver or gold or clothing.

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things.

2 Peter 2:3

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced against them long ago, has not been idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

Judges 17:10

Then Micah said to him, “Stay with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, a set of clothes, and your living.”

Judges 18:19

They said to him, “Keep quiet! Put your hand over your mouth, and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one person or to be priest to a tribe and clan in Israel?”

Judges 18:21

So they resumed their journey, putting the little ones, the livestock, and the goods in front of them.