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OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 14

Judges 18:14

World English Bible Updated

Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered and said to their brothers, “Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim,† and a carved image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do.”

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THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Judges 18:14 in context

Judges 18:11–17

11

The family of the Danites set out from Zorah and Eshtaol with six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

12

They went up and encamped in Kiriath Jearim in Judah. Therefore they call that place Mahaneh Dan to this day. Behold, it is behind Kiriath Jearim.

13

They passed from there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.

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Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered and said to their brothers, “Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim,† and a carved image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do.”

15

They went over 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.

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Notes from World English Bible Updated

  1. teraphim were household idols that may have been associated with inheritance rights to the household property.

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