25 But the children of Dan said to him, “Don’t let your voice be heard among us, lest bitter fellows fall upon you, and you lose your life with the lives of your household.”
26 Then the children of Dan went on their way, and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.
27 Then they took what Micah had made, and his priest, and came to Laish, to a tranquil and unsuspecting people, and struck them with the edge of the sword, and they burned the town with fire.
28 There was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon and they had no alliance with anyone. It was in the valley near Beth-rehob. Then they rebuilt the town and lived in it.
29 So they called the name of the town Dan, after the name of their father Dan born to Israel; however, the former name of the town was Laish.
30 The children of Dan set up for themselves the carved image. Jonathan son of Gershom son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the exile from the land.
31 So they set them up Micah’s carved image that he had made, all the time that the House of God was in Shiloh.