Judges 18:5
They said to him, Ask counsel, we pray you, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.
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- 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 brazen altar shall be for me to inquire by.
- Isa 30:1 : 1 Woe to the rebellious children, says Yahweh, who take counsel, but not of me; and who make a league, but not of 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 wooded 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 said Micah, Now know I that Yahweh will do me good, seeing 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.
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6 The priest said to them, Go in peace: before Yahweh is your way wherein you go.
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3 that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the thing that we should do.
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18 When 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 do you?
19 They said to him, Hold your peace, lay 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?
20 The 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.
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4 Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Please inquire first for the word of Yahweh.
5 Then 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.
6 But Jehoshaphat said, Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh besides, that we may inquire of him?
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5 Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Please inquire first for the word of Yahweh.
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3 When 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? and what do you in this place? and what have you here?
4 He said to them, Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I am become his priest.
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6 He 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; peradventure he can tell us concerning our journey whereon we go.
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13 They passed there to the hill-country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.
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.
15 They 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.
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57 They said, "We will call the young lady, and ask her."
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17 Then Eli answered, Go in peace; and the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.
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19 Listen 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.
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14 When he was 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; and they shall be delivered into your hand.
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5 Then 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.
6 Whether 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.
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27 The children of Israel asked of Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
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18 The 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.
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15 When he was 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.
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9 Behold; 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."
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14 The men took of their provision, and didn't ask counsel at the mouth of Yahweh.
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13 Then said Micah, Now know I that Yahweh will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
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2 The 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."
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8 The servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have in my hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give 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.)
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7 But Jehoshaphat said, Isn't there here a prophet of Yahweh besides, that we may inquire of him?
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19 Now therefore, please wait also here this night, that I may know what Yahweh will speak to me more.
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3 One said, Be pleased, I pray you, to go with your servants. He answered, I will go.
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18 But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, thus shall you tell him, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: As touching the words which you have heard,
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9 and 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.
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8 He said, Which way shall we go up? He answered, The way of the wilderness of Edom.
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8 They came to their brothers to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brothers said to them, What [say] you?
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37 Saul 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.
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22 You 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.
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14 You answered me, and said, The thing which you have spoken is good [for us] to do.
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23 They cried to the children of Dan. They turned their faces, and said to Micah, What ails you, that you come with such a company?
24 He said, you have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and are gone away, and what have I more? and how then say you to me, What ails you?
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3 They 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."
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40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
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12 Esau said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you."
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12 Their 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.
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9 Micah said to him, Whence come you? He said to him, I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find [a place].