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Judges 18:5

And they say to him, “Please ask of God, and we know whether our way on which we are going is prosperous.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.

In Context

4And he says to them, “Thus and thus has Micah done to me; and he hires me, and I am for a priest to him.”

6And the priest says to them, “Go in peace; before YHWH [is] your way in which you go.”

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Cross References

Judges 17:13and Micah says, “Now I have known that YHWH does good to me, for the Levite has been for a priest to me.”

1 Samuel 9:9Formerly in Israel, thus said the man in his going to seek God: “Come and we go to the seer.” For the “prophet” of today is formerly called “the seer.”

2 Kings 16:15And King Ahaz commands him—Urijah the priest—saying, “On the great altar burn as incense the burnt-offering of the morning, and the present of the evening, and the burnt-offering of the king, and his present, and the burnt-offering of all the people of the land, and their present, and their drink-offerings; and all the blood of the burnt-offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice, you sprinkle on it, and the altar of bronze is for me to inquire [by].”

Ezekiel 21:21For the king of Babylon has stood at the head of the way, || At the top of the two ways, to use divination, || He has moved lightly with the arrows, || He has inquired of the teraphim, || He has looked on the liver.

Acts 8:10to whom they were all giving heed, from small to great, saying, “This one is the great power of God”;

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 →

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