Judges 18:1-7

At the last census, Dan had numbered 64,400 males of 20 years old upward and the land alotted to them would have been sufficient had the Amorites not forced them into the mountains (see Numbers 26:42-43 and Ruth 1:34). The men of Dan decided they did not have enough land to pass from father to son for an inheritance. So, they sent five men to spy out a land they could occupy.

They spent the night with Micah and heard an accent obviously not from that region. They asked the Levite how he came to be in the house of Micah and he told them he was serving as his priest. When they asked him to inquire of God as to their efforts, he said God knew of their plans and approved. They then went to Laish, which is called Leshem in Joshua 19:47, and found the people living by trade and commerce like the Sidonians with no one ruling over them and far away from their people (Ruth 18:1-7).