3When they were by the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young Levite. And they turned aside and said to him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?”
The spies pepper the Levite with questions that amount to, What are you doing here? What is a southern Levite doing out here in the sticks, and in a house of idolatry, of all places? These are great questions that expose the underlying issue.
3 When they were by the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young Levite. And they turned aside and said to him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?”