Judges 18:5

And they say to him, 'Ask, we pray thee, at God, and we know whether our way is prosperous on which we are going.'

Young's Literal Translation

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 saith unto them, 'Thus and thus hath Micah done to me; and he hireth me, and I am to him for a priest.'

6And the priest saith to them, 'Go in peace; over-against Jehovah [is] your way in which ye go.'

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Cross References

Judges 17:13and Micah saith, 'Now I have known that Jehovah doth good to me, for the Levite hath been to me for a priest.'

1 Samuel 9:9Formerly in Israel, thus said the man in his going to seek God, 'Come and we go unto the seer,' for the 'prophet' of to-day is called formerly 'the seer.'

2 Kings 16:15And king Ahaz commandeth him — Urijah the priest — saying, 'On the great altar perfume 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 libations; and all the blood of the burnt-offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice, on it thou dost sprinkle, and the altar of brass is to me to inquire [by].'

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

Acts 8:10to whom they were all giving heed, from small unto 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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