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.
"Archaeological excavations in 1826,1928 show that there was an extensive settlement in Shiloh in the twelfth and early eleventh centuries B.C. until its destruction circa 1050 B.C."[18]  Of course, there could well have been at that time a "captivity of the land," which was left unmentioned in the sacred text.