Judges 18:1–6

Danites Seek Territory

^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 ¹an inheritance had not ²been allotted to them as a possession among the tribes of Israel.

²So the sons of Dan sent from their family five men out of their whole number, ¹valiant men 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.

³When they were near the house of Micah, 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?”

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

⁵They said to him, “Inquire of God, please, that we may know whether our way on which we are going will be prosperous.”

⁶The priest said to them, “Go in peace; your way in which you are going ¹has the Lord’s approval.”