In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day [their] inheritance had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel.
"They knew the voice of the young man the Levite"  (Judges 18:3).  "The most natural explanation of these words is that the Danites had previously known the young man, and it is by no means impossible that the author of this story meant to be so understood."[5]  There is no hint in the text of where that acquaintance had taken place, but the fact of this young man's having been a grandson, great grandson, or a descendant of Moses himself, suggests that he might possibly have been rather widely known throughout Israel.