Judges 18:7-9

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁷ Then the five men departed, and came to La′ish, and saw the people who were there, how they dwelt in security, after the manner of the Sido′nians, quiet and unsuspecting, lacking^[a] nothing that is in the earth, and possessing wealth, and how they were far from the Sido′nians and had no dealings with any one. ⁸ And when they came to their brethren at Zorah and Esh′ta-ol, their brethren said to them, “What do you report?” ⁹ They said, “Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very fertile. And will you do nothing? Do not be slow to go, and enter in and possess the land.