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Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their
brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image,
and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.
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And they turned thitherward,
and came to the house of the young man the Levite,
even
unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.
16
And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, which
were
of the children of
Dan, stood by the entering of the gate.
17
And the five men that went to spy out the land went up,
and
came in thither,
and
took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten
image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men
that were
appointed
with weapons of war.
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And these went into Micah’s house, and fetched the carved image, the
ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?
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And
they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a
father and a priest:
is it
better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a
priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?
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And the priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod,
and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.
21
So they turned and
departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them.
22
And
when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that
were
in the houses
near to Micah’s house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.
23
And they cried
unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that
thou comest with such a company?
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And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made,
and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what
is
this
that
ye say unto me,
What aileth thee?
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And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us,
lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.
26
And the
children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they
were
too strong for him, he turned
and went back unto his house.
27
And they took
the things
which Micah had made, and the priest
which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people
that were
at quiet and secure: and they smote
them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.
28
And
there was
no deliverer, because
it
was
far from Zidon, and they had no business with
any
man; and it was in the valley that
lieth
by Beth-rehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein.
29
And they called the name of the city
Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city
was
Laish at the first.
30
And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son
of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the
land.
31
And they set them up Micah’s graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of
God was in Shiloh.
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