⁴⁴ Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Palti son of Laish, who was from Gallim.^(A)

1 The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin,^(A)

¹⁸ Anathoth with its pasturelands, and Almon with its pasturelands—four towns.^(A)

⁸ Then my cousin Hanamel came to me in the court of the guard, in accordance with the word of the Lord, and said to me, “Buy my field that is at Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for the right of possession and redemption is yours; buy it for yourself.” Then I knew that this was the word of the Lord.

²⁶ The king said to the priest Abiathar, “Go to Anathoth, to your estate, for you deserve death. But I will not at this time put you to death because you carried the ark of the Lord God before my father David and because you shared in all the hardships my father endured.”^(A)

²⁹ They named the city Dan after their ancestor Dan, who was born to Israel, but the name of the city was formerly Laish.^(A)

⁷ The five men went on, and when they came to Laish, they observed the people who were there living securely, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, lacking^[a] nothing on earth, and possessing wealth.^[b] Furthermore, they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with Aram.^[c](A)