Judges 18:5

English Standard Version 2016

And they said to him, “Inquire of God, please, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”

Cross References

1 Kings 22:5

And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Inquire first for the word of the Lord.”

Acts 8:10

They all paid attention to him, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is the power of God that is called Great.”

Hosea 4:12

My people inquire of a piece of wood, and their walking staff gives them oracles. For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray, and they have left their God to play the whore.

Ezekiel 21:21

For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shakes the arrows; he consults the teraphim; he looks at the liver.

Isaiah 30:1

“Ah, stubborn children,” declares the Lord, “who carry out a plan, but not mine, and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin;

2 Kings 16:15

And King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, “On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering and the king’s burnt offering and his grain offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their grain offering and their drink offering. And throw 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.”

Judges 18:14

Then the five men who had gone to scout out the country of Laish said to their brothers, “Do you know that in these houses there are an ephod, household gods, a carved image, and a metal image? Now therefore consider what you will do.”

Judges 17:13

Then Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will prosper me, because I have a Levite as priest.”

Judges 17:5

And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household gods, and ordained one of his sons, who became his priest.

Judges 18:4

And he said to them, “This is how Micah dealt with me: he has hired me, and I have become his priest.”

Judges 18:6

And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the Lord.”

1 Samuel 9:9

(Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, “Come, let us go to the seer,” for today’s “prophet” was formerly called a seer.)