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Judges 18:29

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They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel; however the name of the city used to be Laish.

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Judges 18:29 in other translations

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.

Judges 18:29 · American Standard Version

Judges 18:29 in context

  1. 27They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword; then they burned the city with fire.
  2. 28There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone else; and it was in the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. They built the city and lived in it.
  3. 29They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel; however the name of the city used to be Laish.
  4. 30The children of Dan set up for themselves the engraved image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.
  5. 31So they set up for themselves Micah’s engraved image which he made, and it remained all the time that God’s house was in Shiloh.