20 The priest was very pleased. He took the ephod, the household gods and the idol and went along with the people.
20 And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.
20 And the priest's heart was glad. He took the ephod and the household gods and the carved image and went along with the people.
20 The priest jumped at the chance. He took the ephod, the teraphim-idols, and the idol and fell in with the troops.
20 So the priest's heart was glad; and he took the ephod, the household idols, and the carved image, and took his place among the people.
20 The young priest was quite happy to go with them, so he took along the sacred ephod, the household idols, and the carved image.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Judges 18:20
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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!