Judges 18:7-9

Tree of Life Version

⁷ Then the five men left and came to Laish, and saw the people there living securely, like the Zidonians, tranquil and unsuspecting. For there was no humiliation or anything oppressive in the land. Moreover, they were distant from the Zidonians and had no dealings with anybody.

⁸ When they came back to their kinsmen at Zorah and Eshtaol, their kinsmen asked them, “What do you say?”

⁹ “Arise, let’s go up against them!” they said. “For we have seen the land—see, it’s very good. Yet you’re sitting still! Don’t be sluggish! Go enter, possess the land!