Judg 17:10 Micah then said to him, "Dwell with me and be a father and a priest to me, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, a suit of clothes, and your maintenance." So the Levite went in.
Judg 17:11 The Levite agreed to live with the man, and the young man became to him like one of his sons.
Judg 17:12 So Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in the house of Micah.
Judg 17:13 Then Micah said, "Now I know that the LORD will prosper me, seeing I have a Levite as priest."
Judg 18:1 In those days there was no king of Israel; and in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking an inheritance for themselves to live in, for until that day an inheritance had not been allotted to them as a possession among the tribes of Israel.
Judg 18:2 So the sons of Dan sent from their family five men out of their whole number, valiant men from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it; and they said to them, "Go, search the land." And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
Judg 18:3 When 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?"
Judg 18:4 He said to them, "Thus and so has Micah done to me, and he has hired me and I have become his priest."
Judg 18:5 They said to him, "Inquire of God, please, that we may know whether our way on which we are going will be prosperous."
Judg 18:6 The priest said to them, "Go in peace; your way in which you are going has the LORD'S approval."
Judg 18:7 ¶ Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were in it living in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was no ruler humiliating them for anything in the land, and they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.
Judg 18:8 When they came back to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers said to them, "What do you report?"
Judg 18:9 They said, "Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. And will you sit still? Do not delay to go, to enter, to possess the land.
Judg 18:10 "When you enter, you will come to a secure people with a spacious land; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no lack of anything that is on the earth."
Judg 18:11 ¶ Then from the family of the Danites, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, six hundred men armed with weapons of war set out.
Judg 18:12 They went up and camped at Kiriath-jearim in Judah. Therefore they called that place Mahaneh-dan to this day; behold, it is west of Kiriath-jearim.
Judg 18:13 They passed from there to the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah.
Judg 18:14 ¶ Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish said to their kinsmen, "Do you know that there are in these houses an ephod and household idols and a graven image and a molten image? Now therefore, consider what you should do."
Judg 18:15 They turned aside there and came to the house of the young man, the Levite, to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.
Judg 18:16 The six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the sons of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.