So they abandoned the Lord and served Baal [the pagan god of the Canaanites] and the Ashtaroth.

But his [sensible] wife said to him, “If the Lord had desired to kill us, He would not have received a burnt offering and a grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things, nor would He have announced such things as these at this time.”

They shouted to the Danites, who turned and said to Micah, “What is your reason for assembling [against us]?”

All who saw the dismembered parts said, “Nothing like this has ever happened or been seen from the day that the sons of Israel came up from the land of Egypt to this day. Consider it, take counsel, and speak [your minds]!”