There set forth from there of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men girt with weapons of war.
"Six hundred men girt with the weapons of war"  (Judges 18:11).  We later learn that the wives and families of these six hundred men accompanied them, also their cattle and livestock.  In all, it must have been a company of two thousand or more.  The fact of that place where this company camped behind Kiriath-Jearim being named MahanehDAN would seem to indicate that the Danites might have stayed there for a considerable period of time.