Judges 18:14
Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.
The five men who had gone to spy out the country of Laish reported back to their fellow Danites that in those houses there was an ephod and teraphim and a graven image and a molten image, and urged them to consider what they should do about that discovery. Those objects belonged to Micah's private household worship, with the graven and molten images being statues or standing pillars, while the teraphim and the covering ephod were instruments for divination or interpreting dreams. The Danites then carried those objects away, together with the priest, to their new home at Laish, where they set them up as an idolatrous worship and sanctuary at Dan that remained there until the captivity of the northern tribes.
The verse belongs to one of the two concluding episodes of Judges in chapters 17-21, and although placed after chapter 16 where the main story of the book ends, those events occurred in the early part of the judges period, before Samuel the prophet. The passage depicts Israel's backsliding and constant lapsing into awful idolatry, and the low, disordered and grossly immoral state into which Israel had fallen when there was no king in Israel and people did what seemed right to themselves. That backsliding brings disgrace and punishment and cannot be done with impunity, illustrating that human judgment unaided by divine revelation and distorted by selfishness can make wrong appear right. Dan's early apostasy in this discovery and seizure of idols is suggested as a reason Dan was omitted from the tribes named in the sealing of the 144,000. The idolatrous worship thus established at Dan continued so long that it made Dan a ready place for Jeroboam later to set up his golden calf.