They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and secure, and struck them with the edge of the sword; and they burnt the city with fire.
The phrase noted here is possibly an editorial addition at a later time than that of Samuel's narration.  If these words mean "after the Assyrian captivity," then Samuel who died centuries earlier could not have written them.  Baigent stated that, "`Until the day of the captivity' is a later editorial insertion, and the date indicated here is probably that of the fall of the Northern Israel (circa 721 B.C.)."[15]  Furthermore, this appears to mean that the apostasy of Dan was never healed but continued until the Assyrians captured and depopulated Northern Israel.