Judges 18:5
And they said to him, Inquire, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way on which we go shall be prosperous.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
4And he said to them, Thus and thus has Micah done to me; and he has hired me, and I am his priest.
6And the priest said to them, Go in peace: before Jehovah is your way on which ye go.
Cross References
Judges 17:13Then said Micah, Now I know that Jehovah will do me good, because I have the Levite for priest.
1 Samuel 9:9(In former time in Israel, when a man went to ask counsel of God, he said, Come and let us go to the seer; for he that is now called a Prophet was in former time called a Seer.)
2 Kings 16:15And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt-offering, and the evening oblation, and the king's burnt-offering, and his oblation, and the burnt-offering of all the people of the land, and their oblation, and their drink-offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt-offerings, and all the blood of the sacrifices; and the brazen altar shall be for me to inquire [by].
Ezekiel 21:21For the king of Babylon standeth at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shaketh [his] arrows, he inquireth of the teraphim, he looketh in the liver.
Acts 8:10To whom they had all given heed, from small to great, saying, This is the power of God which is called great.
Matthew Henry on Judges 18:2-7
The Expedition of the Danites. ( b. c. 1406.) 1 In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel. 2 And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the… Read the whole commentary →