Judges 18:14-23

¹⁴Then the five men who had gone to make a search through the country of Laish, said to their brothers, Have you knowledge that in these houses there is an ephod and family gods and a pictured image and a metal image? So now you see what to do.

¹⁵And turning from their road they came to the house of the young Levite, the house of Micah, and said to him, Is it well with you?

¹⁶And the six hundred armed men of the Danites took their places by the doorway.

¹⁷Then the five men who had gone to make a search through the land, went in and took the pictured image and the ephod and the family gods and the metal image; and the priest was by the doorway with the six hundred armed men.

¹⁸And when they went into Micah's house and took out the pictured image and the ephod and the family gods and the metal image, the priest said to them, What are you doing?

¹⁹And they said to him, Be quiet; say nothing, and come with us and be our father and priest; is it better for you to be priest to one man's house or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?

²⁰Then the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod and the family gods and the pictured image and went with the people.

²¹So they went on their way again, putting the little ones and the oxen and the goods in front of them.

²²When they had gone some way from the house of Micah, the men from the houses near Micah's house came together and overtook the children of Dan,

²³Crying out to them. And the Danites, turning round, said to Micah, What is your trouble, that you have taken up arms?