07:018:025 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.
07:018:026 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.
07:018:027 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.
07:018:028 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 Bethrehob. And they built a city, and
dwelt
therein.
07:018:029 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.
07:018:030 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.
07:018:031 And they set them up Micah’s graven
image, which he made, all
the
time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
07:019:001 And it came to pass in those days, when
there was no king in
Israel,
that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side
of
mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of
Bethlehemjudah.
07:019:002 And his concubine played the whore against
him, and went away
from
him unto her father’s house to Bethlehemjudah,
and was
there
four whole months.
07:019:003 And her husband arose, and went after her,
to speak friendly
unto
her, and to bring her again, having his servant with
him,
and
a couple of asses: and she brought him into her
father’s
house:
and when the father of the damsel saw him, he rejoiced
to
meet him.
07:019:004 And his father in law, the damsel’s
father, retained him; and
he
abode with him three days: so they did eat and
drink, and
lodged
there.
07:019:005 And it came to pass on the fourth day,
when they arose early
in
the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the
damsel’s
father
said unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart with
a
morsel
of bread, and afterward go your way.
07:019:006 And they sat down, and did eat and drink
both of them
together:
for the damsel’s father had said unto the man,
Be
content,
I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart
be
merry.


