07:017:010 And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me,
and be unto me a
father
and a priest, and I will give thee ten shekels of
silver
by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals.
So
the Levite went in.
07:017:011 And the Levite was content to dwell with
the man; and the
young
man was unto him as one of his sons.
07:017:012 And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the
young man became his
priest,
and was in the house of Micah.
07:017:013 Then said Micah, Now know I that the lord
will do me good,
seeing
I have a Levite to my priest.
07:018:001 In those days there was no king in Israel:
and in those days
the
tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to
dwell
in;
for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen
unto
them among the tribes of Israel.
07:018:002 And the children of Dan sent of their family
five men from
their
coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol,
to
spy
out the land, and to search it; and they said unto
them,
Go,
search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim,
to
the
house of Micah, they lodged there.
07:018:003 When they were by the house of Micah, they
knew the voice of
the
young man the Levite: and they turned in thither,
and said
unto
him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou
in
this
place? and what hast thou here?
07:018:004 And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth
Micah with me,
and
hath hired me, and I am his priest.
07:018:005 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.
07:018:006 And the priest said unto them, Go in peace:
before the lord is
your
way wherein ye go.
07:018:007 Then the five men departed, and came to
Laish, and saw the
people
that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the
manner
of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no
magistrate
in the land, that might put them to shame in any
thing;
and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no
business
with any man.
07:018:008 And they came unto their brethren to Zorah
and Eshtaol: and
their
brethren said unto them, What say ye?
07:018:009 And they said, Arise, that we may go up
against them: for we
have
seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and
are ye
still?
be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the
land.
07:018:010 When ye go, ye shall come unto a people
secure, and to a large
land:
for God hath given it into your hands; a place where
there
is no want of any thing that is in the earth.


