Judges 18:17-19

Good News Translation

¹⁷ The five spies went straight on into the house and took the wooden idol covered with silver, the other idols, and the ephod, while the priest stayed at the gate with the six hundred armed men.

¹⁸ When the men went into Micah's house and took the sacred objects, the priest asked them, “What are you doing?”

¹⁹ They told him, “Keep quiet. Don't say a word. Come with us and be our priest and adviser. Wouldn't you rather be a priest for a whole Israelite tribe than for the family of one man?”