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What does Judges 18:31 mean?
"So they set up for themselves Micah’s engraved image which he made, and it remained all the time that God’s house was in Shiloh."
— Judges 18:31 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone else; and it was in the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. They built the city, and lived in it.
They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel; however the name of the city used to be Laish.
The children of Dan set up for themselves the engraved image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.
So they set up for themselves Micah’s engraved image which he made, and it remained all the time that God’s house was in Shiloh.
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