Judges 18:1–6

Danites Seek an Inheritance

^1aIn those days there was no king of Israel; and ^bin those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking an inheritance for themselves to live in, for until that day the land among the tribes of Israel had not fallen to them as an inheritance.

²So the sons of Dan sent from their family five men out of their whole number, ¹men of valor from ^aZorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it; and they said to them, “Go, search the land.” And they came to ^bthe hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

³They 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?”

⁴And he said to them, “Thus and so has Micah done to me, and he has hired me, and ^aI have become his priest.”

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

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