Judges 18:5

World English Bible (2000)

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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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 22:5 : 5 Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Please inquire first for the word of Yahweh."
  • 2 Kgs 16:15 : 15 King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, "On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meal offering, and the king's burnt offering, and his meal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle 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."
  • Isa 30:1 : 1 "Woe to the rebellious children," says Yahweh, "who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,
  • Ezek 21:21 : 21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he shook the arrows back and forth, he consulted the teraphim, he looked in the liver.
  • Hos 4:12 : 12 My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.
  • Acts 8:10 : 10 to whom they all listened, from the least to the greatest, saying, "This man is that great power of God."
  • Judg 17:5 : 5 The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.
  • Judg 17:13 : 13 Then Micah said, "Now know I that Yahweh will do good to me, since I have a Levite to my priest."
  • Judg 18:14 : 14 Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered, and said to their brothers, "Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and an engraved image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 18:6
    80%

    6The priest said to them, "Go in peace. Your way in which you go is before Yahweh."

  • Jer 42:3
    78%

    3that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the thing that we should do.

  • Judg 18:18-20
    3 verses
    77%

    18When these went into Micah's house, and fetched the engraved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, "What are you doing?"

    19They said to him, "Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?"

    20The priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the engraved image, and went in the midst of the people.

  • 2 Chr 18:4-6
    3 verses
    75%

    4Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Please inquire first for the word of Yahweh."

    5Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, "Shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?" They said, "Go up; for God will deliver it into the hand of the king."

    6But Jehoshaphat said, "Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh besides, that we may inquire of him?"

  • 1 Kgs 22:5
    74%

    5Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, "Please inquire first for the word of Yahweh."

  • Judg 18:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; and they turned aside there, and said to him, "Who brought you here? What do you do in this place? What do you have here?"

    4He said to them, "Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I am become his priest."

  • 1 Sam 9:6
    74%

    6He said to him, "See now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is a man who is held in honor. All that he says comes surely to pass. Now let us go there. Perhaps he can tell us concerning our journey whereon we go."

  • Judg 18:13-15
    3 verses
    73%

    13They passed there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.

    14Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered, and said to their brothers, "Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and an engraved image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do."

    15They turned aside there, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.

  • Gen 24:57
    72%

    57They said, "We will call the young lady, and ask her."

  • 1 Sam 1:17
    72%

    17Then Eli answered, "Go in peace; and may the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him."

  • Exod 18:19
    72%

    19Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.

  • 2 Chr 18:14
    72%

    14When he had come to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?" He said, "Go up, and prosper. They shall be delivered into your hand."

  • Jer 42:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5Then they said to Jeremiah, Yahweh be a true and faithful witness among us, if we don't do according to all the word with which Yahweh your God shall send you to us.

    6Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of Yahweh our God, to whom we send you; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of Yahweh our God.

  • Judg 20:27
    71%

    27The children of Israel asked of Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,

  • Judg 20:18
    71%

    18The children of Israel arose, and went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God; and they said, "Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin?" Yahweh said, "Judah [shall go up] first."

  • 1 Kgs 22:15
    71%

    15When he had come to the king, the king said to him, "Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall we forbear?" He answered him, "Go up and prosper; and Yahweh will deliver it into the hand of the king."

  • Num 10:31-32
    2 verses
    71%

    31He said, "Don't leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.

    32It shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that whatever good Yahweh does to us, we will do the same to you."

  • 1 Sam 6:9
    71%

    9Behold; if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it was a chance that happened to us."

  • Josh 9:14
    71%

    14The men sampled their provisions, and didn't ask counsel from the mouth of Yahweh.

  • Judg 17:13
    71%

    13Then Micah said, "Now know I that Yahweh will do good to me, since I have a Levite to my priest."

  • 1 Sam 6:2
    70%

    2The Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, "What shall we do with the ark of Yahweh? Show us with which we shall send it to its place."

  • 1 Sam 9:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8The servant answered Saul again, and said, "Behold, I have in my hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver. I will give that to the man of God, to tell us our way."

    9(In earlier times in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he said, "Come, and let us go to the seer;" for he who is now called a prophet was before called a Seer.)

  • 1 Kgs 22:7
    70%

    7But Jehoshaphat said, "Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh, that we may inquire of him?"

  • Num 22:19
    70%

    19Now therefore, please wait also here this night, that I may know what Yahweh will speak to me more."

  • 2 Kgs 6:3
    70%

    3One said, "Please be pleased to go with your servants." He answered, "I will go."

  • 2 Kgs 22:18
    70%

    18But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, thus you shall tell him, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: 'Concerning the words which you have heard,

  • Deut 17:9
    70%

    9and you shall come to the priests the Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days: and you shall inquire; and they shall show you the sentence of judgment.

  • 2 Kgs 3:8
    70%

    8He said, "Which way shall we go up?" He answered, "The way of the wilderness of Edom."

  • Judg 18:8
    69%

    8They came to their brothers to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brothers said to them, "What do you say?"

  • 1 Sam 14:37
    69%

    37Saul asked counsel of God, "Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?" But he didn't answer him that day.

  • Deut 1:22
    69%

    22You came near to me everyone of you, and said, "Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come."

  • Deut 1:14
    69%

    14You answered me, and said, "The thing which you have spoken is good [for us] to do."

  • Judg 18:23-24
    2 verses
    69%

    23They cried to the children of Dan. They turned their faces, and said to Micah, "What ails you, that you come with such a company?"

    24He said, "You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and have gone away, and what more do I have? How then do you say to me, 'What ails you?'"

  • Exod 5:3
    69%

    3They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword."

  • Lam 3:40
    69%

    40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

  • Gen 33:12
    69%

    12Esau said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you."

  • 1 Kgs 13:12
    69%

    12Their father said to them, "Which way did he go?" Now his sons had seen which way the man of God went, who came from Judah.

  • Judg 17:9
    69%

    9Micah said to him, "Where did you come from?" He said to him, "I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I am looking for a place to live."