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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."

New Heart English Bible

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

4He said to them, "Thus and so has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I have become his priest."

6The priest said to them, "Go in peace. The Lord will watch over you on your journey."

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Cross References

Judges 17:13Then Micah said, "Now I know that the Lord will do good to me, seeing 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 would say, "Come, and let us go to the seer"; for he who is now called a prophet was formerly called a seer.)

2 Kings 16:15King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, "On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meal offering, and the king's burnt offering, and his meal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and 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 shall 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 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 →

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