Judges 18:4

WEB

⁴He said to them, “Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I have become his priest.”

KJV

⁴And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.

BSB

⁴“Micah has done this and that for me,” he replied, “and he has hired me to be his priest.”

FBV

⁴“Micah arranged things for me, and he hired me as his priest,” he told them.

Extra References

Ezekiel 13:19

¹⁹You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.’

Judges 17:10

¹⁰Micah said to him, “Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver per year, a suit of clothing, and your food.” So the Levite went in.

John 10:12-13

¹²He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them. ¹³The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand and doesn’t care for the sheep.

Judges 17:12

¹²Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

Acts 20:33

³³I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.

Hosea 4:8-9

⁸They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity. ⁹It will be like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds.

1 Timothy 3:3

³not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

2 Peter 2:3

³In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

Titus 1:11

¹¹whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

Proverbs 28:21

²¹To show partiality is not good, yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.