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Judges 18:5

World English Bible

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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Judges 18:5 in other translations

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.

Judges 18:5 · American Standard Version

Judges 18:5 in context

  1. 3When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; so they went over there and said to him, “Who brought you here? What do you do in this place? What do you have here?”
  2. 4He said to them, “Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I have become his priest.”
  3. 5They said to him, “Please ask counsel of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.”
  4. 6The priest said to them, “Go in peace. Your way in which you go is before Yahweh.”
  5. 7Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in safety, in the way of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was no one in the land possessing authority, that might put them to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with anyone else.