Judges 18:2-7 ▼

2 So the sons of Dan sent from their family five men out of their whole number, men of valor from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it; and they said to them, “Go, search the land.” And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

3 They were near the house of Micah, and they recognized the voice of the young man, the Levite. So 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, “Thus and so has Micah done to me, and he has hired me, and I have become his priest.”

5 And they said to him, “Ask of God, please, that we may know whether our way on which we are going will be successful.”

6 So the priest said to them, “Go in peace; your way in which you are going is before Yahweh.”

7 Then the five men went forth and came to Laish and saw the people who were in it living in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was no oppressive conqueror dishonoring them for anything in the land, and they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.