Judges 17:5

17:5 Now this man Micah owned a shrine. ¹  He made an ephod ²  and some personal idols and hired one of his sons to serve as a priest. ³ 

Judges 18:18

18:18 When these men broke into Micah’s house and stole ⁴  the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

Judges 18:20

18:20 The priest was happy. He took the ephod, the personal idols, and the carved image and joined the group. ⁵ 

Judges 18:14

18:14 The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish ⁶  said to their kinsmen, ⁷  “Do you realize that inside these houses are an ephod, some personal idols, a carved image, and a metal image? Decide now what you want to do.”

Judges 18:17

18:17 The five men who had gone to spy out the land broke in and stole ⁸  the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, while the priest was standing at the entrance to the gate with the six hundred fully armed men. ⁹ 

[17:5]  ¹ tn Heb “house of God.”

[17:5]  ² sn Here an ephod probably refers to a priestly garment (cf. Exod 28:4-6).

[17:5]  ³ tn Heb “and he filled the hand of one of his sons and he became his priest.”

[18:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “These went into Micah’s house and took.”

[18:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “and went into the midst of the people.”

[18:14]  ¹⁰ tc Codex Alexandrinus (A) of the LXX lacks the phrase “of Laish.”

[18:14]  ¹¹ tn Heb “brothers.”

[18:17]  ¹³ tn Heb “went up, went in there, took.”

[18:17]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “six hundred men, equipped with the weapons of war.”