Five scouts depart

1In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking for itself an inheritance to dwell in, because up to that day no inheritance had fallen to it among the tribes of Israel.

2So the sons of Dan sent five men from their clan, from among their whole number, valiant men from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to explore it. And they said to them, “Go, explore the land.” So they came to the hill country of Ephraim, as far as the house of Micah, and spent the night there.