Judges 18:5

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Summary

And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.

Ask counsel

Of god

Judges 18:14

Judges 17:5

Bible References

Ask counsel

Moreover, Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Please inquire first for the word of the Lord.”

Then King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, “Upon 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.”

“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the Lord,
“Who execute a plan, but not Mine,
And

make an alliance, but not of My Spirit,

In order to add sin to sin;

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

household idols, he looks at the liver.

My people consult their wooden idol, and their diviner’s wand informs them;
For a spirit of harlotry has led them astray,
And they have played the harlot, departing from their God.

and they all, from smallest to greatest, were giving attention to him, saying, “This man is what is called the Great Power of God.”

Of god

Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish said to their kinsmen, “Do you know that there are in these houses an ephod and household idols and a graven image and a molten image? Now therefore, consider what you should do.”

And the man Micah had a

shrine and he made an ephod and

household idols and consecrated one of his sons, that he might become his priest.