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.
"Jonathan ... son of Gershom, son of Moses, he and his sons were priests to ... the Danites"  (Judges 18:30).  The apostasy of this grandson of Moses (the same word, [~ben], means great grandson) was an embarrassment to the Jews, and they wrote the word "Manasseh" above the word Moses but did not change the text, so that in reading it aloud they did not have to mention this shameful development in the posterity of Moses.[14]  Of course, the connection of the distinguished family of Moses with this apostate shrine in Dan added to its prestige and acceptance by the Israelites.