1. Judges 18:30 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What would be the long-lasting effect of their setting up idols?

Judges 18:30 (ESV)

30 And the people of Dan set up the carved image for themselves, and Jonathan the son of Gershom, son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.

This northern spot for false worship was the precursor to the sanctuary Jeroboam later established there (1 Kings 12:29). Micah’s idol was replaced by a golden calf that Jeroboam made, which became a sin because the Israelites went there to bow down to it, until the destruction of the northing kingdom by the Assyrians.