And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.
The children of Dan set up the graven image. Their distance secluded them from the rest of the Israelites; and doubtless this, which was their apology for not going to Shiloh, was the cause of perpetuating idolatry among them for many generations.
Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh. [The best MSS. universally have Mosheh (H4872) Moses, not Mªnaseh (H4519), Manasseh.] A sad proof of the degeneracy of the great law-giver's family, as well as of the religious disorders of that age.
Until ... the captivity of the land - i:e., until the overthrow of the kingdom.