Judges 18:2-7 ▼

2 So the sons of Dan sent from the total number of their [extended] family five brave men from Zorah and Eshtaol, to scout the land and to explore it; and they said to them, “Go, explore the land.” They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

3 When they passed near Micah’s house, they recognized the voice of the young man, the Levite, and they turned aside there and said to him, “Who brought you here? And what are you doing in this place? And what do you have here?”

4 And he said to them, “Micah has done this and that for me, and he has hired me and I have become his priest.”

5 And they said to him, “Please ask of God, so that we may know whether our journey on which we are going will be successful.”

6 The priest said to them, “Go in peace; the journey on which you are going is acceptable to the LORD.”

7 Then the five men went on and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, [how they were] living securely in the style of the Sidonians, quiet and peaceful; and there was no oppressive magistrate in the land humiliating them in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.