it was only that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, that he might teach war to such at least as had not known it before.

But his wife said to him, "If the LORD had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a cereal offering at our hands, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us such things as these."

And they shouted to the Danites, who turned round and said to Micah, "What ails you that you come with such a company?"

And all who saw it said, "Such a thing has never happened or been seen from the day that the people of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt until this day; consider it, take counsel, and speak."