They came to their brothers to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brothers said to them, What [say] you?
The Danites were unable, or unwilling, to claim their God-appointed territory in which no city was larger than Laish. But they were eager to march miles north and battle other Canaanites for a town that suited them better. The fact that Laish lay within the Promised Land, the full extent of the land that God had said He would give the Israelites, does not justify the Danites’ action. It was God’s will for His people first to settle in their appointed tribal allotments. Then He would give them the rest of the land later.