Judges 17:5

Micah's Idolatry

⁴ When he gave the silver back to his mother, she took two hundred pieces of silver to a silversmith, who made them into a carved image and a metal image. She then put them in Micah's house. ⁵ Now this man Micah owned a shrine. He made an ephod and some personal idols and hired one of his sons to serve as a priest. ⁶ In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right.

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Genesis 31:19

While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.

Judges 8:27

Gideon used all this to make an ephod, which he put in his hometown of Ophrah. All the Israelites prostituted themselves to it by worshiping it there. It became a snare to Gideon and his family.

Judges 18:14

The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their kinsmen, "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."

Genesis 31:30

Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father's house. Yet why did you steal my gods?"

Judges 18:24

He said, "You stole my gods that I made, as well as this priest, and then went away. What do I have left? How can you have the audacity to say to me, 'What do you want?'"

Exodus 28:15

"You are to make a breastpiece for use in making decisions, the work of an artistic designer; you are to make it in the same fashion as the ephod; you are to make it of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen.

Exodus 29:9

and wrap the sashes around Aaron and his sons and put headbands on them, and so the ministry of priesthood will belong to them by a perpetual ordinance. Thus you are to consecrate Aaron and his sons.

Hosea 3:4

For the Israelites must live many days without a king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred fertility pillar, without ephod or idols.

Exodus 24:5

He sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls for peace offerings to the Lord.

Exodus 28:4

Now these are the garments that they are to make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a fitted tunic, a turban, and a sash. They are to make holy garments for your brother Aaron and for his sons, that they may minister as my priests.

1 Samuel 23:6

Now when Abiathar son of Ahimelech had fled to David at Keilah, he had brought with him an ephod.

1 Kings 12:31

He built temples on the high places and appointed as priests people who were not Levites.

1 Kings 13:33-34

After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; he continued to appoint common people as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest.

Ezra 1:7

Then King Cyrus brought out the vessels of the Lord's temple which Nebuchadnezzar had brought from Jerusalem and had displayed in the temple of his gods.

Hosea 8:14

Israel has forgotten his Maker and built royal palaces, and Judah has built many fortified cities. But I will send fire on their cities; it will consume their royal citadels.

Hebrews 5:4

And no one assumes this honor on his own initiative, but only when called to it by God, as in fact Aaron was.