Judges 18:19

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And they said to him, “Keep quiet, put your hand upon 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 man, or to be priest to a tribe and family in Israel?”

Cross References

2 Kings 13:14

Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash king of Israel went down to him, and wept before him, crying, “My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”

2 Kings 6:21

When the king of Israel saw them he said to Elisha, “My father, shall I slay them? Shall I slay them?”

Job 21:5

Look at me, and be appalled, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

Job 29:9

the princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth;

Proverbs 30:32

If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth.

Micah 7:16

The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf;

Matthew 23:9

And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

Judges 17:10

And 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, and a suit of apparel, and your living.”

Judges 18:18

And when these went into Micah's house and took the graven image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

Judges 18:20

And the priest's heart was glad; he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.