In Context

5 They said to him, |Please ask counsel of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.|

6 The priest said to them, |Go in peace. Your way in which you go is before Yahweh.|

7 Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people who were therein, how they lived in security, in the way of the Sidonians, quiet and secure; for there was none in the land, possessing authority, that might put them to shame in anything, and they were far from the Sidonians, and had no dealings with any man.

8 They came to their brothers to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brothers said to them, |What do you say?|

9 They said, |Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. Do you stand still? Don't be slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land.

10 When you go, you shall come to a secure people, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no want of anything that is in the earth.|

Judges 18:8 in Other Translations