“And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.”
King James Version (KJV)
18:20 Was glad - Being wholly governed by his own interest. The midst - Both for the greater security of such precious things, and that Micah might not be able to come at him, to injure or upbraid him; and, it may be, because that was the place where the ark used to be carried.