Judges 18:14-23

¹⁴Then the five men who had gone to scout the country of Laish said to their relatives, “Do you know that in these houses there are an ephod, household gods, a carved figure, and a cast metal figure? Decide now what you will do.”

¹⁵So they turned in there and came to the house of the young Levite, at the house of Micah, and they greeted him.

¹⁶Now the six hundred Danites, armed with weapons of war, stood at the entrance of the gate.

¹⁷The five men who had gone to scout out the land went there and they took the carved figure, the ephod, the household gods, and the cast metal figure, while the priest stood by the opening of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

¹⁸When these went into Micah's house and took the carved figure, the ephod, the household gods, and the cast metal figure, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

¹⁹They said to him, “Be quiet! Put your hand on your mouth and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest for the house of one man, or to be priest for a tribe and a clan in Israel?”

²⁰The priest's heart was glad. He took the ephod, the household gods, and the carved figure, and went along with the people.

²¹So they turned and went away. They put the small children in front of themselves, as well as the cattle and their possessions.

²²When they were a good distance from the house of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah's house were called together, and they caught up with the Danites.

²³They shouted to the Danites, and they turned and said to Micah, “Why have you been called together?”