The shrine is taken

14Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish answered and said to their brothers, “Do you know that in these houses there are an ephod, teraphim, a carved image, and a cast image? So now, know what you will do.”

15They turned aside there and came to the house of the young Levite, to the house of Micah, and asked him about his welfare.

16And six hundred men, armed with their weapons of war, were standing at the entrance of the gate; these were from the sons of Dan.

17Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land went up, came there, and took the carved image, the ephod, the household gods, and the cast image, while the priest was standing at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

18These men went into Micah’s house and took the carved image, the ephod, the household idols, and the cast image. Then the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

19They said to him, “Be quiet; put your hand over your mouth, and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a clan in Israel?”

20And the priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, the household idols, and the carved image, and went into the midst of the people.

21So they turned and went on, and put the little children, the livestock, and the valuables before them.