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

Then the five men departed and came to (A)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 [b]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 report?”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 18:6 Lit is before the Lord
  2. Judges 18:7 Lit possessor of restraint