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. Jdg 1:34Jdg 17:6Jdg 19:1Jdg 21:25Jos 19:40-48 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. 1 Jdg 13:25Jos 2:1Jdg 18:11Jdg 18:8Num 13:17Gen 42:9Jdg 13:2Jdg 16:31 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? Gen 27:22Mat 26:73Isa 22:16Jdg 12:6 And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest. Ezk 13:19Jdg 17:10Jdg 17:12Jhn 10:12-131Ti 3:32Pe 2:14-152Pe 2:3Act 20:33 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. 1Ki 22:5Act 8:10Isa 30:1Hos 4:122Ki 16:15Ezk 21:21Jdg 17:13Jdg 17:5 And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the LORD is your way wherein ye go. 1Ki 22:61Ki 22:121Ki 22:151Th 3:11Deu 11:12Jer 23:21-22Jer 23:32Psa 33:18
¶ 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. 2 3 Jos 19:471Sa 3:13Jdg 18:27-281Ki 1:61Pe 2:14Rev 18:7Rom 13:3 And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye? Jdg 18:11Jdg 18:2Jdg 13:2Jdg 16:31 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. Jos 2:23-24Num 13:30Jhn 6:27Jos 18:31Ki 22:231Ki 22:31Sa 4:92Pe 1:10-11 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. Jdg 18:271Ti 6:17Jdg 18:7Deu 11:11-12Deu 2:29Deu 4:1Deu 8:7-9Exo 3:8
¶ 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. 4 Jdg 18:16 And they went up, and pitched in Kirjath-jearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahaneh-dan unto this day: behold, it is behind Kirjath-jearim. Jdg 13:251Ch 13:5-6Jos 15:601Sa 7:12Ch 1:4 And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah. Jdg 17:1Jdg 18:2-3Jdg 19:1Jos 24:30Jos 24:33
¶ 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. Jdg 17:5Jdg 18:3-4Pro 19:271Sa 14:28Isa 8:19-20 And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him. 5 Gen 43:27Jhn 14:271Sa 17:222Ki 4:26Gen 37:14Luk 10:4-6Mat 10:12-13 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. Jdg 18:11 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. Jdg 18:14Jdg 17:4-5Jdg 18:21Sa 4:111Sa 6:2-92Ki 19:18-19Exo 32:20Gen 31:19 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? 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? Jdg 17:10Job 21:5Job 29:9Mic 7:16Pro 30:322Ki 13:142Ki 6:212Ki 8:8-9 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. Isa 56:112Pe 2:15-162Pe 2:3Act 20:33Ezk 13:19Hos 4:3Jdg 17:10Php 3:19 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them.
¶ 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. 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? 6 Gen 21:171Sa 11:52Ki 6:282Sa 14:5Isa 22:1Psa 114:5 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? Hab 2:18-19Isa 44:18-20Psa 115:8Act 19:26Ezk 23:5Jdg 17:13Jer 50:38Jer 51:17 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. 7 Job 27:21Sa 30:62Sa 17:8Job 3:5 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.
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. Jos 19:47Jdg 18:7Jdg 18:10Deu 33:22Jos 11:11 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 Beth-rehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein. 2Sa 10:6Jdg 18:7Num 13:21Psa 7:22Sa 14:6Dan 3:15-17Isa 23:12Isa 23:4 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. Jos 19:471Ki 15:20Gen 14:141Ki 12:29-30Gen 30:6Jdg 20:12Sa 17:11Gen 32:28
¶ 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. 1Sa 4:10-11Exo 2:221Sa 4:2-3Deu 31:29Jdg 13:1Jdg 17:3Jdg 17:5Psa 78:60-62 And they set them up Micah’s graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh. Jos 18:11Sa 1:3Jdg 19:181Sa 4:4Jdg 21:21Jer 7:12