Judges 18:27-31

The Voice

²⁷ The people of Dan, having taken Micah’s household gods and his priest, came to Laish; and there they attacked those people who were quiet and without suspicion, killed them without mercy, and burned down their city. ²⁸ No one came to save the people of Laish, since they were far from Sidon and had no treaties with anyone. This all happened in the valley that is near Beth-rehob, house of a broad place. The Danites rebuilt the city there and lived in it. ²⁹ They changed the name of the city from Laish to Dan, after their ancestor and namesake who was born to Israel (also called Jacob). ³⁰ There the people of Dan set up the carved image for themselves, and Jonathan (son of Gershom, son of Moses) and his sons became the priests to Dan and were their priests until the people of Israel were taken off into captivity. ³¹ They kept the carved image of Micah as their own for as long as the house of the True God was at Shiloh.