Judges 18:5-11

⁵They said to him, “Please seek the advice of God, so we may know whether the journey we are going on will be successful.”

⁶The priest said to them, “Go in peace. Yahweh will lead you in the way you should go.”

⁷Then the five men left and came to Laish, and they saw that the people were living in safety, in the same way the Sidonians lived, undisturbed and secure. There was no one who conquered them or who oppressed them in any way in the land. They lived far away from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.

⁸They returned to their tribe in Zorah and Eshtaol. Their relatives asked them, “What is your report?”

⁹They said, “Come! Let us attack them! We have seen the land and it is very good. Are you doing nothing? Do not be slow to attack and conquer the land.

¹⁰When you go, you will come to a people who think they are secure, and the land is wide! God has given it to you—a place that does not lack anything in the land.”

¹¹Six hundred men of the tribe of Dan, armed with weapons of war, set out from Zorah and Eshtaol.