⁴ For the children of Israel ^(A)shall dwell many days ^(B)without king or prince, ^(C)without sacrifice or ^(D)pillar, without ^(E)ephod or ^(F)household gods.

⁵ And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made ^(A)an ephod and ^(B)household gods, and ^(C)ordained^[a] one of his sons, who became his priest.

² and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: ^(A)The Lord is with you while you are with him. ^(B)If you seek him, he will be found by you, ^(C)but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

¹⁹ Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's ^(A)household gods.

²⁶ For ^(A)if we go on sinning deliberately ^(B)after receiving the knowledge of the truth, ^(C)there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

¹¹ And from the time that ^(A)the regular burnt offering is taken away and ^(B)the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be 1,290 days.

²⁷ And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week,^[a] and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. ^(A)And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until ^(B)the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.”

⁹ David knew that Saul was plotting harm against him. And he said to Abiathar the priest, ^(A)“Bring the ephod here.”

²⁷ And Gideon ^(A)made an ephod of it and put it in his city, ^(B)in Ophrah. And all Israel ^(C)whored after it there, and it became a ^(D)snare to Gideon and to his family.