4 And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.
4 He told them what Micah had done for him, and said, "He has hired me and I am his priest."
4 And he said to them, "This is how Micah dealt with me: he has hired me, and I have become his priest."
4 He said, "One thing led to another: Micah hired me and I'm now his priest."
4 He said to them, "Thus and so Micah did for me. He has hired me, and I have become his priest."
4 He told them about his agreement with Micah and that he had been hired as Micah's personal priest.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Judges 18:4
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The Danites seek to enlarge their inheritance, and rob Micah.
The Danites determined to take Micah's gods with them. Oh the folly of these Danites! How could they imagine those gods should protect them, that could not keep themselves from being stolen! To take them for their own use, was a double crime; it showed they neither feared God, nor regarded man, but were lost both to godliness and honesty. What a folly was it for Micah to call those his gods, which he had made, when He only is to be worshipped by us as God, that made us! That is put in God's place, which we are concerned about, as if our all were bound up in it. If people will walk in the name of their false gods, much more should we love and serve the true God!