And Yehoshaphat said to the sovereign of Yisra’ĕl, “Please, first inquire for the word of יהוה.”
Judges 18:5 - The Scriptures 2009 And they said to him, “Please inquire of Elohim, and we shall know whether the journey on which we are going is prosperous.” Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And they said to him, Ask counsel, we pray you, of God that we may know whether our journey will be successful. American Standard Version (1901) 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. Common English Bible They said to him, “Ask for an answer from God so we can know whether we’ll be successful on this trip we’ve taken.” Catholic Public Domain Version Then they begged him to consult the Lord, so that they might be able to know whether the journey they undertook would be prosperous, and whether the matter would have success. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Then they desired him to consult the Lord, that they might know whether their journey should be prosperous, and the thing should have effect. |
And Yehoshaphat said to the sovereign of Yisra’ĕl, “Please, first inquire for the word of יהוה.”
And Sovereign Aḥaz commanded Uriyah the priest, saying, “On the great slaughter-place burn the morning ascending offering, and the evening grain offering, and the sovereign’s ascending offering, and his grain offering, with the ascending offering of all the people of the land, and their grain offering, and their drink offerings. And sprinkle on it all the blood of the ascending offering and all the blood of the slaughtering. And the bronze slaughter-place is for me to inquire by.”
“Woe to the stubborn children,” declares יהוה, “to make counsel, but not from Me, and to devise plans, but not of My Spirit, in order to add sin to sin;
“For the sovereign of Baḇel shall stand at the parting of the way, at the fork of the two ways, to practise divination. He shall shake the arrows, he shall ask the household idols, he shall look at the liver.
“My people ask from their Wood, and their Staff declares to them. For a spirit of whorings has led them astray, and they went whoring from under their Elohim.
to whom they all were giving heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This one is the power of Elohim, which is great.”
And Miḵah said, “Now I know that יהוה does good to me, since I have a Lĕwite as priest!”
Now the man Miḵah had a house of mighty ones, and made a shoulder garment and house idols. And he ordained one of his sons, who became his priest.
And the five men who had gone to spy out the land of Layish answered and said to their brothers, “Do you know that there are in these houses a shoulder garment, and house idols, and a carved image, and a moulded image? And now, you know what to do.”
And he said to them, “Miḵah did such and such for me. And he hired me, and I have become his priest.”
And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. Your journey on which you go is before יהוה.”
Formerly, in Yisra’ĕl, when a man went to inquire of Elohim, he spoke thus, “Come, let us go to the seer,” for the prophet of today was formerly called a seer.