World English Bible

Judges 18:15-19 World English Bible (WEB)

15. They turned aside there, and came to the house of the young Levite man, even to the house of Micah, and asked him how he was doing.

16. The six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.

17. The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image; and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

18. When these went into Micah’s house, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

19. They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go 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 a family in Israel?”