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.
"During the time that the house of God was in Shiloh"  (Judges 18:31). The continuity of that particular installation of Micah's `god' in Dan did not last until the Assyrian invasion in 722 B.C., because  Judges 18:31 indicates that it continued only "during the time that the house of God" remained in Shiloh.  "The sanctuary at Shiloh was destroyed in 1050 B.C."[16]  If Samuel had written the words indicating the use of that shrine "until the captivity of the land," then the words, "all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh" would have been robbed of their meaning.  For this reason, we receive the words "until the time of the captivity" as possibly an editorial insertion, true indeed as for their intended meaning, but nevertheless confusing in the text as they stand.