19
And they said to him, Be silent, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest: better for thee to be the priest of the house of one man, or to be the priest of a tribe and house for a family of Israel?
20
And the heart of the priest was glad, and he took the ephod, and the theraphin, and the graven image, and the molten image, and went in the midst of the people.
21
So they turned and departed, and put their children and their property and their baggage before them.
22
They went some distance from the house of Michaias, and, behold, Michaias and the men in the houses near Michaias' house, cried out, and overtook the children of Dan.
23
And the children of Dan turned their face, and said to Michaias, What is the matter with thee that thou hast cried out?
24
And Michaias said, Because ye have taken my graven image which I made, and my priest, and are gone; and what have I remaining? and what this ye say to me, Why criest thou?
25
And the children of Dan said to him, Let not thy voice be heard with us, lest angry men run upon thee, and take away thy life, and the lives of thy house.
26
And the children of Dan went their way; and Michaias saw that they were stronger than himself, and he returned to his house.
27
And the children of Dan took what Michaias had made, and the priest that he had, and they came to Laisa, to a people quiet and secure; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.
28
And there was no deliverer, because is far from the Sidonians, and they have no intercourse with men, and it in the valley of the house of Raab; and they built the city, and dwelt in it.
29
And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel; and the name of the city was Ulamais before.