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Judges 18
²⁸ And there was no one to deliver them, because it was far from Sidon and they had no dealings with anyone, and it was in the valley which is near Beth-rehob. And they rebuilt the city and lived in it.
²⁹ They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father who was born in Israel; however, the name of the city formerly was Laish.
³⁰ The sons of Dan set up for themselves the graven image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.
³¹ So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image which he had made, all the time that the house of God was at Shiloh.
Judges 19
¹ Now it came about in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite staying in the remote part of the hill country of Ephraim, who took a concubine for himself from Bethlehem in Judah.
² But his concubine played the harlot against him, and she went away from him to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah, and was there for a period of four months.
³ Then her husband arose and went after her to speak tenderly to her in order to bring her back, taking with him his servant and a pair of donkeys. So she brought him into her father’s house, and when the girl’s father saw him, he was glad to meet him.
⁴ His father-in-law, the girl’s father, detained him; and he remained with him three days. So they ate and drank and lodged there.
⁵ Now on the fourth day they got up early in the morning, and he prepared to go; and the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, "Sustain yourself with a piece of bread, and afterward you may go."
⁶ So both of them sat down and ate and drank together; and the girl’s father said to the man, "Please be willing to spend the night, and let your heart be merry."
⁷ Then the man arose to go, but his father-in-law urged him so that he spent the night there again.