8. They came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol; and their brothers asked them, “What do you say?”
9. They said, “Arise, and let’s go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. Do you stand still? Don’t be slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land.
10. When you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people, and the land is large; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”
11. The family of the Danites set out from Zorah and Eshtaol, with six hundred men armed with weapons of war.
12. They went up and encamped in Kiriath Jearim, in Judah. Therefore they called that place Mahaneh Dan, to this day. Behold, it is behind Kiriath Jearim.
13. They passed from there to the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.
14. Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered, and said to their brothers, “Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a carved image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do.”
15. They went over there, and came to the house of the young Levite man, even to the house of Micah, and asked him how he was doing.
16. The six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.
17. The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image; and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.
18. When these went into Micah’s house, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
19. They said to him, “Hold your peace, put your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?”
20. The priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, the teraphim, and the engraved image, and went with the people.
21. So they turned and departed, and put the little ones, the livestock, and the goods before them.