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18:1 In those days there was no king in
Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in;
for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of
Israel.
18:2 And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of
valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said
unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of
Micah, they lodged there.
18:3 When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the
Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what
makest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?
18:4 And he said unto them, Thus and thus
dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.
18:5 And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether
our way which we go shall be prosperous.
18:6 And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the LORD is your way wherein ye
go.
18:7 Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein,
how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there
was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were
far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.
18:8 And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto
them, What say ye?
18:9 And they said, Arise, that we may go up
against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still?
be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land.
18:10 When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath
given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the
earth.
18:11 And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of
Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of war.
18:12 And they went up, and pitched in Kirjathjearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that
place Mahanehdan unto this day: behold, it is behind Kirjathjearim.
18:13 And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah.
18:14 Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto
their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a
graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.
18:15 And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even
unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.
18:16 And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, which were of the
children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate.
18:17 And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and
took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the
priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with
weapons of war.
18:18 And these went into Micah's house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the
teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?
18:19 And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?
18:20 And the priest's heart was glad, and he
took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the
people.
18:21 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage
before them.
18:22 And when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that were in the
houses near to Micah's house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.
18:23 And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto
Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?
18:24 And he said, Ye have taken away my gods
which I made, and the priest, and ye are gone away: and what have I more? and
what is this that ye say unto me, What aileth thee?
18:25 And the children of Dan said unto him,
Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy
life, with the lives of thy household.
18:26 And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong
for him, he turned and went back unto his house.
18:27 And they took the things which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came
unto Laish, unto a people that were at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge
of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.
18:28 And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business
with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by Bethrehob. And they built a city, and
dwelt therein.
18:29 And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who
was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first.
18:30 And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom,
the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the
captivity of the land.
18:31 And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the
house of God was in Shiloh.
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