Judges 18:5
They said to him, “Please ask counsel of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.”
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In Context
6The priest said to them, “Go in peace. Your way in which you go is before the LORD.”
Cross References
Judges 17:13Then Micah said, “Now I know that the LORD will do good to me, since I have a Levite as my priest.”
1 Samuel 9:9(In earlier times in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, “Come! Let’s go to the seer;” for he who is now called a prophet was before called a seer.)
2 Kings 16:15King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, “On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, the evening meal offering, the king’s burnt offering and his meal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their meal offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice; but the bronze altar will be for me to inquire by.”
Ezekiel 21:21For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows back and forth. He consulted the teraphim. He looked in the liver.
Acts 8:10to whom they all listened, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is that 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 →