Judges 18:27-28-31 Good News Bible Catholic Edition (GNBDK)

3. While they were there, they recognized the accent of the young Levite, so they went up to him and asked, “What are you doing here? Who brought you here?”

4. He answered, “I have an arrangement with Micah, who pays me to serve as his priest.”

5. They said to him, “Please ask God if we are going to be successful on our journey.”

6. The priest answered, “You have nothing to worry about. The Lord is taking care of you on this journey.”

7. So the five men left and went to the town of Laish. They saw how safely the people there were living, like the Sidonians. They were a peaceful, quiet people, with no disputes with anyone; they had all they needed. They lived far away from the Sidonians and had no dealings with any other people.

8. When the five men returned to Zorah and Eshtaol, their countrymen asked them what they had found out.

9. “Come on,” they replied. “Let's attack Laish. We saw the land, and it's very good. Don't stay here doing nothing; hurry! Go on in and take it over!

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.

Judges 18