Judges 18:5
Then they said to him, “Please inquire of God to determine whether we will have a successful journey.”
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4“Micah has done this and that for me,” he replied, “and he has hired me to be his priest.”
6And the priest told them, “Go in peace. The LORD is watching over your journey.”
Cross References
Judges 17:13Then Micah said, “Now I know that the LORD will be good to me, because a Levite has become my priest.”
1 Samuel 9:9(Formerly in Israel, a man on his way to inquire of God would say, “Come, let us go to the seer.” For the prophet of today was formerly called the seer.)
2 Kings 16:15Then King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, “Offer on the great altar the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering, and the king’s burnt offering and grain offering, as well as the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings of all the people of the land. Splatter on the altar all the blood of the burnt offerings and sacrifices. But I will use the bronze altar to seek guidance.”
Ezekiel 21:21For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the liver.
Acts 8:10and from the least to the greatest they heeded his words and said, “This man 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 →