The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men girt with weapons of war.
"The question the Danites posed to him is asked every day by pastoral search committees: ’Which is better, to be the pastor of a small family or to be the pastor of a megachurch?’ The contemporary problem of ambition and opportunism in the ministry has at least a three-thousand-year history." [Note: Block, Judges . . ., p. 515.] 