²² And of Dan he said:

⁶ Then Rachel said, “God has ^(A)judged my case; and He has also heard my voice and given me a son.” Therefore she called his name ^[a]Dan.

²⁶ Then the children of Dan went their way. And when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.

Danites Settle in Laish

²⁷ So they took the things Micah had made, and the priest who had belonged to him, and went to Laish, to a people quiet and secure; ^(A)and they struck them with the edge of the sword and burned the city with fire.

The Danites Adopt Micah’s Idolatry

18 In ^(A)those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days ^(B)the tribe of the Danites was seeking an inheritance for itself to dwell in; for until that day their inheritance among the tribes of Israel had not fallen to them. ² So the children of Dan sent five men of their family from their territory, men of valor from ^(C)Zorah and Eshtaol, ^(D)to spy out the land and search it. They said to them, “Go, search the land.” So they went to the mountains of Ephraim, to the ^(E)house of Micah, and lodged there.

²⁰ And ^(A)he judged Israel ^(B)twenty years ^(C)in the days of the Philistines.

²⁴ So the woman bore a son and called his name ^(A)Samson; and ^(B)the child grew, and the Lord blessed him. ^25 (C)And the Spirit of the Lord began to move upon him at ^[a]Mahaneh Dan ^(D)between Zorah and ^(E)Eshtaol.

² Now there was a certain man from ^(A)Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had no children.

²⁵ Then ^(A)the standard of the camp of the children of Dan (the rear guard of all the camps) set out according to their armies; over their army was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.