And they said to him, “Inquire of God, please, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”
And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Inquire first for the word of the Lord.”
They all paid attention to him, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is the power of God that is called Great.”
My people inquire of a piece of wood, and their walking staff gives them oracles. For a spirit of whoredom has led them astray, and they have left their God to play the whore.
For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shakes the arrows; he consults the teraphim; he looks at the liver.
“Ah, stubborn children,” declares the Lord, “who carry out a plan, but not mine, and who make an alliance, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin;
And King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, “On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering and the king's burnt offering and his grain offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their grain offering and their drink offering. And throw on it all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice, but the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by.”
Then the five men who had gone to scout out the country of Laish said to their brothers, “Do you know that in these houses there are an ephod, household gods, a carved image, and a metal image? Now therefore consider what you will do.”
Then Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will prosper me, because I have a Levite as priest.”
And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household gods, and ordained one of his sons, who became his priest.
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