SEV Biblia, Chapter 18:20
Y se alegró el corazón del sacerdote; el cual tomando el efod y los terafines, y la imagen, se vino entre la gente.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Judges 18:20
Verse 20. Went to the midst of the people.] He was glad to be employed by the Danites; and went into the crowd, that he might not be discovered by Micah or his family.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 20. And the priest’s heart was glad , etc.] He rejoiced that such an opportunity offered; it suited well with his covetous, ambitious, rambling, and unsettled disposition of mind: and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image ; and no doubt the molten image also, out of the hands of the five men into his own, agreeing to go with them, and officiate for them: and went in the midst of the people ; the six hundred armed men, either for the security of himself, if Micah should raise his servants, and his neighbours, to pursue after him, and fetch him back, with his images; or, as others think, in imitation of the priests bearing the ark, who in journeying marched in the middle of the camp.
Matthew Henry Commentary
The Danites seek to enlarge their inheritance, and rob Micah. --The Danites determined to take Micah's gods with them. Oh the foll of these Danites! How could they imagine those gods should protec them, that could not keep themselves from being stolen! To take the for their own use, was a double crime; it showed they neither feare 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 ha made, when He only is to be worshipped by us as God, that made us! Tha is put in God's place, which we are concerned about, as if our all wer 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 __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
וייטב 3190 לב 3820 הכהן 3548 ויקח 3947 את 853 האפוד 646 ואת 853 התרפים 8655 ואת 853 הפסל 6459 ויבא 935 בקרב 7130 העם׃ 5971
