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.
"Until the day of the captivity of the land"  (Judges 18:30).  It is amazing to this writer that the same radical scholars who can find thirty `interpolations' or `glosses' in a single chapter are absolutely blind to such a thing when they actually encounter one.  That there are indeed editorial additions to the sacred text here and there cannot be denied, as for example in those places where the sacred writer's death and burial are recorded.  An example is found in  Joshua 24:29-30, and another is in  Deuteronomy 34:5-8).