Judges 18:5
“Please ask the Lord for us so we can find out if our journey will be successful,” they asked him.
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4“Micah arranged things for me, and he hired me as his priest,” he told them.
6“Go in peace,” the priest replied. “The journey you are taking is being observed by the Lord.”
Cross References
Judges 17:13“I'm sure the Lord will bless me now, because I have a Levite as my priest,” Micah concluded.
1 Samuel 9:9(In the old days in Israel, someone who went to inquire of God would say, “Come on, let's go to the seer,” because prophets used to be known as seers.)
2 Kings 16:15Then King Ahaz ordered Uriah the priest: “Use this new important altar to offer the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering, the king's burnt offering and grain offering, and the burnt offering of all the people, and their grain offerings and their drink offerings. Sprinkle on this altar the blood of all the burnt offerings and sacrifices. The old bronze altar I'll use for divination.”
Ezekiel 21:21The king of Babylon is standing at the fork in the road where the two roads meet looking for a prophetic sign: he casts lots using arrows, he asks advice from idols, and he examines the liver of sacrificial animals.
Acts 8:10so they all paid attention to him. From the lowest to the highest in society they said, “This man is ‘God the Great Power.’”
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 →