⁵ Then they said, Do get directions from God for us, to see if the journey on which we are going will have a good outcome.

⁵ Then Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Let us now get directions from the Lord.

⁵ And the man Micah had a house of gods; and he made an ephod and family gods and put one of his sons in the position of priest.

¹³ Then Micah said, Now I am certain that the Lord will do me good, seeing that the Levite has become my priest.

¹⁴ Then the five men who had gone to make a search through the country of Laish, said to their brothers, Have you knowledge that in these houses there is an ephod and family gods and a pictured image and a metal image? So now you see what to do.

¹⁵ And King Ahaz gave orders to Urijah the priest, saying, Make the morning burned offering and the evening meal offering and the king's burned offering and meal offering, with the burned offerings of all the people and their meal offerings and drink offerings, on the great altar, and put on it all the blood of the burned offerings and of the beasts which are offered; but the brass altar will be for my use to get directions from the Lord.

¹ Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin:

²¹ For the king of Babylon took his place at the parting of the ways, at the top of the two roads, to make use of secret arts: shaking the arrows this way and that, he put questions to the images of his gods, he took note of the inner parts of dead beasts.

¹² My people get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news; for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.

¹⁰ To whom they all gave attention, from the smallest to the greatest, saying, This man is that power of God which is named Great.