5And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.
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Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day.
My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God.
Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Here is, 1. The eye which these Danites had upon Laish, not the whole tribe of Dan, but one family of them, to whose lot, in the subdivision of Canaan, that city fell. Hitherto this family had sojourned with their brethren, who had taken possession of their lot, which lay between Judah and the Philistines, and had declined going to their own city, because there was no king in Israel to rule over t…
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