 It is notable that everyone except the people of Laish is portrayed negatively — Micah is a thief (at least in the second narrative), his mother consecrates 1100 shekels but only gives 200 of them for the purpose to which they were consecrated (again in the second narrative), the mother has molten and graven idols created (second narrative) - which violates the Mitzvot against this, the Tribe of Dan steal the idols, the Levite is disloyal (in the first narrative), and Dan brutally conquer and destroy the peaceful and unmilitarised city of Laish (in the first narrative).Micah is variously identified in Classical Rabbinical Literature; some Rabbis consider him to be identical with Sheba son of Bichri and others with Nebat, the father of Jeroboam.The Rabbinical sources thus regard "Micah" as an appellation, and give it an etymology (not supported by modern linguists) where it means "the crushed one", in reference to a haggadah narrative concerning the Biblical story of bricks without straw in the Moses cycle.