³⁴ The Amorites^(A) confined the Danites^(B) to the hill country, not allowing them to come down into the plain.^{(C) 35} And the Amorites were determined also to hold out in Mount Heres,^(D) Aijalon^(E) and Shaalbim,^(F) but when the power of the tribes of Joseph increased, they too were pressed into forced labor.

The Danites Settle in Laish

18 In those days Israel had no king.^(A)

And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking a place of their own where they might settle, because they had not yet come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.^(B)