9. They said, "Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. And will you sit still? Do not delay to go, to enter, to possess the land.
10. When you enter, you will come to a secure people with a spacious land; for God has given it into your hand, a place where there is no lack of anything that is on the earth."
11. Then from the family of the Danites, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, six hundred men armed with weapons of war set out.
12. They went up and camped at Kiriath-jearim in Judah. Therefore they called that place Mahaneh-dan to this day; behold, it is west of Kiriath-jearim.
13. They passed from there to the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah.
14. Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish said to their kinsmen, "Do you know that there are in these houses an ephod and household idols and a graven image and a molten image? Now therefore, consider what you should do."
15. They turned aside there and came to the house of the young man, the Levite, to the house of Micah, and asked him of his welfare.
16. The six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the sons of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.
17. Now the five men who went to spy out the land went up and entered there, and took the graven image and the ephod and household idols and the molten image, while the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.
18. When these went into Micah's house and took the graven image, the ephod and household idols and the molten image, the priest said to them, "What are you doing?"
19. They said to him, "Be silent, put your hand over your mouth and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be a priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?"
20. The priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod and household idols and the graven image and went among the people.
21. Then they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the livestock and the valuables in front of them.
22. When they had gone some distance from the house of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah's house assembled and overtook the sons of Dan.
23. They cried to the sons of Dan, who turned around and said to Micah, "What is the matter with you, that you have assembled together?"
24. He said, "You have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and have gone away, and what do I have besides? So how can you say to me, 'What is the matter with you?'"
25. The sons of Dan said to him, "Do not let your voice be heard among us, or else fierce men will fall upon you and you will lose your life, with the lives of your household."