This man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household idols, and installed one of his sons to be his priest.

Micah replied, “Stay with me and be my father and priest, and I will give you four ounces of silver a year, along with your clothing and provisions.” So the Levite went in

Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in Micah’s house.

Then Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will be good to me, because a Levite has become my priest.”

He told them what Micah had done for him and that he had hired him as his priest.

The priest told them, “Go in peace. The Lord is watching over the journey you are going on.”

Then the five men who had gone to scout out the land went in and took the carved image overlaid with silver, the ephod, and the household idols, while the priest was standing by the entrance of the gate with the 600 men armed with weapons of war.

When they entered Micah’s house and took the carved image overlaid with silver, the ephod, and the household idols, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

They told him, “Be quiet. Keep your mouth shut. Come with us and be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be a priest for the house of one person or for you to be a priest for a tribe and family in Israel?”

So the priest was pleased and took his ephod, household idols, and carved image, and went with the people.

He said, “You took the gods I had made and the priest, and went away. What do I have left? How can you say to me, ‘What’s the matter with you?’”

After they had taken the gods Micah had made and the priest that belonged to him, they went to Laish, to a quiet and unsuspecting people. They killed them with their swords and burned down the city.