²² And of Dan he said,

⁶ Then Rachel said, “God has judged me and has also heard my voice and given me a son”; therefore she named him Dan.^[a](A)

²⁶ Then the Danites went their way. When Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his home.

The Danites Settle in Laish

²⁷ The Danites, having taken what Micah had made and the priest who belonged to him, came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, put them to the sword, and burned down the city.^(A)

The Migration of Dan

18 In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking for itself a territory to live in, for until then no territory among the tribes of Israel had been allotted to them.^{(A) 2} So the Danites sent five valiant men from the whole number of their clan, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to explore it, and they said to them, “Go, explore the land.” When they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they stayed there.^(B)

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

²⁴ The woman bore a son and named him Samson. The boy grew, and the Lord blessed him.^{(A) 25} The spirit of the Lord began to stir him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.^(B)

² There was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. His wife was barren, having borne no children.^(A)

²⁵ Then the standard of the camp of Dan, acting as the rear guard of all the camps, set out, company by company, and over the whole company was Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.^(A)