Judges 18:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then they said, Do get directions from God for us, to see if the journey on which we are going will have a good outcome.

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  • 1 Kgs 22:5 : 5 Then Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Let us now get directions from the Lord.
  • 2 Kgs 16:15 : 15 And King Ahaz gave orders to Urijah the priest, saying, Make the morning burned offering and the evening meal offering and the king's burned offering and meal offering, with the burned offerings of all the people and their meal offerings and drink offerings, on the great altar, and put on it all the blood of the burned offerings and of the beasts which are offered; but the brass altar will be for my use to get directions from the Lord.
  • Isa 30:1 : 1 Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin:
  • Ezek 21:21 : 21 For the king of Babylon took his place at the parting of the ways, at the top of the two roads, to make use of secret arts: shaking the arrows this way and that, he put questions to the images of his gods, he took note of the inner parts of dead beasts.
  • Hos 4:12 : 12 My people get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news; for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.
  • Acts 8:10 : 10 To whom they all gave attention, from the smallest to the greatest, saying, This man is that power of God which is named Great.
  • Judg 17:5 : 5 And the man Micah had a house of gods; and he made an ephod and family gods and put one of his sons in the position of priest.
  • Judg 17:13 : 13 Then Micah said, Now I am certain that the Lord will do me good, seeing that the Levite has become my priest.
  • Judg 18:14 : 14 Then the five men who had gone to make a search through the country of Laish, said to their brothers, Have you knowledge that in these houses there is an ephod and family gods and a pictured image and a metal image? So now you see what to do.

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  • Judg 18:6
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    6 And the priest said to them, Go in peace: your way is guided by the Lord.

  • Jer 42:3
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    3 That the Lord your God may make clear to us the way in which we are to go and what we are to do.

  • Judg 18:18-20
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    77%

    18 And when they went into Micah's house and took out the pictured image and the ephod and the family gods and the metal image, the priest said to them, What are you doing?

    19 And they said to him, Be quiet; say nothing, and come with us and be our father and priest; is it better for you to be priest to one man's house or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?

    20 Then the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod and the family gods and the pictured image and went with the people.

  • 2 Chr 18:4-6
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    4 Then Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Let us now get directions from the Lord.

    5 So the king of Israel got together all the prophets, four hundred men, and said to them, Am I to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And they said, Go up: for God will give it into the hands of the king.

    6 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there no other prophet of the Lord here from whom we may get directions?

  • 1 Kgs 22:5
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    5 Then Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Let us now get directions from the Lord.

  • Judg 18:3-4
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    3 When they were near the house of Micah, hearing a voice which was not strange to them, that of the young Levite, they went out of their road to his place, and said to him, How did you come here? and what are you doing in this place? and why are you here?

    4 And he said to them, This is what Micah did for me, and he gave me payment and I became his priest.

  • 1 Sam 9:6
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    6 But the servant said to him, See now, in this town there is a man of God, who is highly honoured, and everything he says comes true: let us go there now; it may be that he will give us directions about our journey.

  • Judg 18:13-15
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    13 From there they went on to the hill-country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah.

    14 Then the five men who had gone to make a search through the country of Laish, said to their brothers, Have you knowledge that in these houses there is an ephod and family gods and a pictured image and a metal image? So now you see what to do.

    15 And turning from their road they came to the house of the young Levite, the house of Micah, and said to him, Is it well with you?

  • Gen 24:57
    72%

    57 And they said, We will send for the girl, and let her make the decision.

  • 1 Sam 1:17
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    17 Then Eli said to her, Go in peace: and may the God of Israel give you an answer to the prayer you have made to him.

  • Exod 18:19
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    19 Give ear now to my suggestion, and may God be with you: you are to be the people's representative before God, taking their causes to him:

  • 2 Chr 18:14
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    14 When he came to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, are we to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And he said, Go up, and it will go well for you; and they will be given up into your hands.

  • Jer 42:5-6
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    71%

    5 Then they said to Jeremiah, May the Lord be a true witness against us in good faith, if we do not do everything which the Lord your God sends you to say to us.

    6 If it is good or if it is evil, we will be guided by the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we are sending you; so that it may be well for us when we give ear to the voice of the Lord our God.

  • Judg 20:27
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    27 And the children of Israel made request to the Lord, (for the ark of the agreement of the Lord was there in those days,

  • Judg 20:18
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    18 And they got up and went up to Beth-el to get directions from God, and the children of Israel said, Who is to be the first to go up to the fight against the children of Benjamin? And the Lord said, Judah is to go up first.

  • 1 Kgs 22:15
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    15 When he came to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, are we to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And in answer he said, Go up, and it will go well for you; and the Lord will give it into the hands of the king.

  • Num 10:31-32
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    31 And he said, Do not go from us; for you will be eyes for us, guiding us to the right places in the waste land to put up our tents.

    32 And if you come with us, we will give you a part in whatever good the Lord does for us.

  • 1 Sam 6:9
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    9 If it goes by the land of Israel to Beth-shemesh, then this great evil is his work; but if not, then we may be certain that the evil was not his doing, but was the working of chance.

  • Josh 9:14
    71%

    14 And the men took some of their food, without requesting directions from the Lord.

  • Judg 17:13
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    13 Then Micah said, Now I am certain that the Lord will do me good, seeing that the Levite has become my priest.

  • 1 Sam 6:2
    70%

    2 And the Philistines sent for the priests and those who were wise in secret arts, and said to them, What are we to do with the ark of the Lord? How are we to send it away to its place?

  • 1 Sam 9:8-9
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    8 But the servant said in answer, I have here a fourth part of a shekel of silver: I will give that to the man of God, and he will give us directions about our way.

    9 (In the past in Israel, when a man went to get directions from God, he said, Come let us go to the Seer, for he who now is named Prophet was in those days given the name of Seer.)

  • 1 Kgs 22:7
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    7 But Jehoshaphat said, Is there no other prophet of the Lord here from whom we may get directions?

  • Num 22:19
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    19 So take your rest here this night, till I have knowledge what more the Lord has to say to me.

  • 2 Kgs 6:3
    70%

    3 And one of them said, Be pleased to go with your servants. And he said, I will go.

  • 2 Kgs 22:18
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    18 But to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from the Lord, say, This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said: As to the words which have come to your ears,

  • Deut 17:9
    70%

    9 And come before the priests, the Levites, or before him who is judge at the time: and they will go into the question and give you a decision:

  • 2 Kgs 3:8
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    8 And he said, Which way are we to go? And he said in answer, By the waste land of Edom.

  • Judg 18:8
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    8 So they came back to their brothers in Zorah and Eshtaol, and their brothers said to them, What news have you?

  • 1 Sam 14:37
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    37 And Saul, desiring directions from God, said, Am I to go down after the Philistines? will you give them up into the hands of Israel? But he gave him no answer that day.

  • Deut 1:22
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    22 And you came near to me, every one of you, and said, Let us send men before us to go through the land with care and give us an account of the way we are to go and the towns to which we will come.

  • Deut 1:14
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    14 And you made answer and said to me, It is good for us to do as you say.

  • Judg 18:23-24
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    23 Crying out to them. And the Danites, turning round, said to Micah, What is your trouble, that you have taken up arms?

    24 And he said, You have taken my gods which I made, and my priest, and have gone away; what is there for me now? Why then do you say to me, What is your trouble?

  • Exod 5:3
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    3 And they said, The God of the Hebrews has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God, so that he may not send death on us by disease or the sword.

  • Lam 3:40
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    40 Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;

  • Gen 33:12
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    12 And he said, Let us go on our journey together, and I will go in front.

  • 1 Kgs 13:12
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    12 Then their father said to them, Which way did he go? Now his sons had seen which way the man of God who came from Judah had gone.

  • Judg 17:9
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    9 And Micah said to him, Where do you come from? And he said to him, I am a Levite from Beth-lehem-judah, and I am looking for a living-place.