Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered, and said to their brothers, Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and an engraved image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what you have to do.
"And the priest took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people"  (Judges 18:20).   Judges 18:17-18 declare that the religious items were taken by the five former spies, but the statement here that the priest "took them" does not contradict that. The five took them from Micah's house of gods, and the priest took them from the Danites when he accepted their invitation to go with them as their priest.