Priestly garment associated with high-priestly service and inquiry before the LORD.
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The ephod is the priestly vestment prescribed for — gold, blue, purple, and scarlet with fine twined linen — to which the breastplate of judgment is bound (Exodus 28:6-28; Leviticus 8:7). Wearing an ephod marks priestly service: the boy ministers in a linen ephod (1 Samuel 2:18), the eighty-five priests of Nob killed by Doeg wear the linen ephod (1 Samuel 22:18), and dances before the ark clothed in one (2 Samuel 6:14). The ephod also serves as the instrument of inquiry before : David twice asks the priest to bring the ephod so he can seek guidance, at Keilah and at Ziklag (1 Samuel 23:9; 30:7). The narratives record deviant ephods as well — 's gold ephod at becomes a snare to him and to Israel (Judges 8:27), and Micah of Ephraim makes an ephod and teraphim for his household shrine, which the Danites carry off (Judges 17:5; 18:14-20). foretells Israel living many days without ephod or teraphim (Hosea 3:4).
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