Judges 18:24

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“He replied, “You took the gods I had made, and my priest, and went away. What else do I have? How can you say to me, ‘What is the matter with you?’””

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BSBPD

“He replied, “You took the gods I had made, and my priest, and went away. What else do I have? How can you say to me, ‘What is the matter with you?’””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and what is this that ye say unto me, What aileth thee?”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And he said, ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and are gone away, and what have I more? and how then say ye unto me, What aileth thee?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And he saith, `My gods which I made ye have taken, and the priest, and ye go; and what to me more? and what <FI>is<Fi> this ye say unto me, What--to thee!'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Judges 18:24 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 31:30Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”
  2. Genesis 31:34Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.
  3. Judges 17:13Then Micah said, “Now I know that the LORD will be good to me, because a Levite has become my priest.”
  4. 2 Chronicles 25:15Therefore the anger of the LORD burned against Amaziah, and He sent him a prophet, who said, “Why have you sought this people’s gods, which could not deliver them from your hand?”
  5. Psalms 115:8Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.
  6. Isaiah 44:18They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.
  7. Jeremiah 50:38A drought is upon her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and the people go mad over idols.
  8. Jeremiah 51:17Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
  9. Ezekiel 23:5Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors
  10. Habakkuk 2:18What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it— or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
  11. Acts 19:26And you can see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in nearly the whole province of Asia, Paul has persuaded a great number of people to turn away. He says that man-made gods are no gods at all.
  12. Revelation 17:2The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.”

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