Judges 18:27-31

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The Danites Settle in Laish

²⁷ The Danites, having taken what Micah had made and the priest who belonged to him, came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, put them to the sword, and burned down the city.^{(A) 28} There was no deliverer because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with Aram.^[a] It was in the valley that belongs to Beth-rehob. They rebuilt the city and lived in it.^{(B) 29} They named the city Dan after their ancestor Dan, who was born to Israel, but the name of the city was formerly Laish.^{(C) 30} Then the Danites set up the idol for themselves. Jonathan son of Gershom son of Moses^[b] and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the time the land went into captivity.^{(D) 31} So they maintained as their own Micah’s idol that he had made, as long as the house of God was at Shiloh.^(E)