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 was Laish at the first.
There may be a polemic against Bethel in the reference to Ephraim in Judges 17:1. [Note: See Yairah Amit, "Hidden Polemic in the Conquest of Dan: Judges XVII-XVIII," Vetus Testamentum 40 (1990):4-20.] 