And the priest said to them, “Go in peace; your way in which you are going [a]has the Lords approval.”

So the five men departed and came to (A)Laish, and saw the people who were in it living in security, in the way of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting; for there was no [b]oppressive ruler humiliating them for anything in the land, and they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone. When they came back to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers said to them, “What do you say?”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 18:6 Lit is before the Lord
  2. Judges 18:7 Or oppressive conqueror; lit possessor of oppression

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