⁴ For the children of Israel shall abide many days ^(A)without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without ^(B)ephod or ^(C)teraphim.

⁵ The man Micah had a ^(A)shrine, and made an ^(B)ephod and ^(C)household^[a] idols; and he consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

² And he went out ^[a]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; but ^(C)if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

¹⁹ Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel had stolen the ^(A)household^[a] idols that were her father’s.

The Just Live by Faith

²⁶ For ^(A)if we sin willfully ^(B)after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there ^(C)no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

¹¹ “And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days.

⁹ When David knew that Saul plotted evil against him, ^(A)he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”

²⁷ Then Gideon ^(A)made it into an ephod and set it up in his city, ^(B)Ophrah. And all Israel ^(C)played the harlot with it there. It became ^(D)a snare to Gideon and to his house.