For the children of Israel shall abide many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.
"Without ephod ... teraphim ..." The difficulty of knowing exactly what is said here derives from the fact that "ephod" apparently had two meanings.  As a garment, it seems to have been a legitimate part of the dress of the High Priest; but it also had another meaning.  Jamieson interpreted this passage as a pairing of the legitimate and illegitimate, making the sacrifice and pillar, ephod and teraphim, to be in each pair the true opposed to the false.  Thus he viewed the sacrifice as true worship, the pillar as false; and the ephod as approved and the teraphim disapproved.[28]  Also Butler favored this understanding of the last two pairs as a contrast in each case of the true and the false: