Judges 18:5

New Century Version

They said to him, “Please ask God if our journey will be successful.”

Cross References

1 Kings 22:5

Jehoshaphat also said to Ahab, “But first we should ask if this is the Lord’s will.”

2 Kings 16:15

King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, “On the large altar burn the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering, the king’s burnt offering and grain offering, and the whole burnt offering, the grain offering, and the drink offering for all the people of the land. Sprinkle on the altar all the blood of the burnt offering and of the sacrifice. But I will use the bronze altar to ask questions of God.”

Isaiah 30:1

The Lord said, “How terrible it will be for these stubborn children. They make plans, but they don’t ask me to help them. They make agreements with other nations, without asking my Spirit. They are adding more and more sins to themselves.

Ezekiel 21:21

The king of Babylon has come to where the road divides, and he is using magic. He throws lots with arrows and asks questions of his family idols. He looks at the liver of a sacrificed animal to learn where he should go.

Hosea 4:12

“My people ask wooden idols for advice; they ask those sticks of wood to advise them! Like prostitutes, they have chased after other gods and have left their own God.

Acts 8:10

All the people—the least important and the most important—paid attention to Simon, saying, “This man has the power of God, called ‘the Great Power’!”

Judges 17:13

Then Micah said, “Now I know the Lord will be good to me, because I have a Levite as my priest.”

Judges 17:5

Micah had a special holy place, and he made a holy vest and some household idols. Then Micah chose one of his sons to be his priest.

Judges 18:14

The five men who had explored the land around Laish said to their relatives, “Do you know in one of these houses there are a holy vest, household gods, an idol, and a statue? You know what to do.”

Judges 18:4

He told them what Micah had done for him, saying, “He hired me. I am his priest.”

Judges 18:6

The priest said to them, “Go in peace. The Lord is pleased with your journey.”

1 Samuel 9:9

(In the past, if someone in Israel wanted to ask something from God, he would say, “Let’s go to the seer.” We call the person a prophet today, but in the past he was called a seer.)