24. Micah replied, "You’ve taken my gods that I made, and the priest, and have gone off! What do I have left? How can you ask me what is wrong?"
25. But the Danites said to him, "Don’t raise your voice with us or else hotheaded men will attack you, and you and your household will lose your lives."
26. Then the Danites went on their way. When Micah realized that they were too strong for him, he turned around and went home.
27. The Danites took along the things that Micah had made, as well as the priest who had been with him, and came to Laish, to a people who were undisturbed and secure. They killed the people and burned down the city.
28. No one was there to rescue them because the city was far away from Sidon and had no dealings with anyone else. It was in the Beth-rehob Valley.They rebuilt the city and settled in it.
29. They renamed the city Dan, after their ancestor Dan who had been one of Israel’s sons; but in fact, the original name of the city was Laish.
30. The Danites set up the sculpted image for themselves, and Jonathan son of Gershom and grandson of Moses, and his sons became priests for the Danite tribe until the land went into exile.
31. They kept for themselves the sculpted image that Micah had made throughout the whole time that God’s sanctuary was in Shiloh.