17 Now the five men who went to spy out the land went up and entered there , and took the graven image and the ephod and household idols and the molten image , while the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Judges 18:17
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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!