26. Then they went on. Micah saw that they were too strong for him, so he turned and went back home.
27-28. After the men from Dan had taken the priest and the things that Micah had made, they went and attacked Laish, that town of peaceful, quiet people which was in the same valley as Bethrehob. They killed the inhabitants and burnt the town. There was no one to save them, because Laish was a long way from Sidon, and they had no dealings with any other people. The men from Dan rebuilt the town and settled down there.
29. They changed its name from Laish to Dan, after their ancestor Dan, the son of Jacob.
30. The men from Dan set up the idol to be worshipped, and Jonathan, the son of Gershom and grandson of Moses, served as a priest for the tribe of Dan, and his descendants served as their priests until the people were taken away into exile.
31. Micah's idol remained there all the time that the Tent where God was worshipped remained at Shiloh.