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Judges 8:27
Gideon used all this to make an ephod, which he put in his hometown of Ophrah. All the Israelites prostituted themselves to it by worshiping it there. It became a snare to Gideon and his family.
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Genesis 31:19
While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.
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Judges 18:14
The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their kinsmen,“ Do you realize that inside these houses are an ephod, some personal idols, a carved image, and a metal image? Decide now what you want to do.”
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Genesis 31:30
Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?”
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Judges 18:24
He said,“ You stole my gods that I made, as well as this priest, and then went away. What do I have left? How can you have the audacity to say to me,‘ What do you want?’”
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Hosea 3:4
For the Israelites must live many days without a king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred fertility pillar, without ephod or idols.
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Exodus 29:9
and wrap the sashes around Aaron and his sons and put headbands on them, and so the ministry of priesthood will belong to them by a perpetual ordinance. Thus you are to consecrate Aaron and his sons.
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Exodus 28:15
“ You are to make a breastpiece for use in making decisions, the work of an artistic designer; you are to make it in the same fashion as the ephod; you are to make it of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twisted linen.
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Ezra 1:7
Then King Cyrus brought out the vessels of the LORD’s temple which Nebuchadnezzar had brought from Jerusalem and had displayed in the temple of his gods.
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Hosea 8:14
Israel has forgotten his Maker and built royal palaces, and Judah has built many fortified cities. But I will send fire on their cities; it will consume their royal citadels.
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1 Samuel 23 6
Now when Abiathar son of Ahimelech had fled to David at Keilah, he had brought with him an ephod.
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1 Kings 12 31
He built temples on the high places and appointed as priests people who were not Levites.
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Hebrews 5:4
And no one assumes this honor on his own initiative, but only when called to it by God, as in fact Aaron was.
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Exodus 28:4
Now these are the garments that they are to make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a fitted tunic, a turban, and a sash. They are to make holy garments for your brother Aaron and for his sons, that they may minister as my priests.
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1 Kings 13 33-1 Kings 13 34
After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; he continued to appoint common people as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest.This sin caused Jeroboam’s dynasty to come to an end and to be destroyed from the face of the earth.
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Exodus 24:5
He sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls for peace offerings to the LORD.