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OET (OET-LV) And_ the_descendants_of _went of_Dān on_way_of_their and_ Mīkāh _he/it_saw if/because_that [were_too]_strong they from_him/it and_turned and_went_back to home_of_his.
OET (OET-RV) Then Micah realised that they were too strong for them, so they turned back around and went home.
¶ So the Danites continued onward,
Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result
וַיֵּלְכ֥וּ בְנֵי דָ֖ן לְדַרְכָּ֑ם וַיַּ֣רְא מִיכָ֗ה כִּי חֲזָקִ֥ים הֵ֨מָּה֙ מִמֶּ֔נּוּ
and,went sons_of Dān on,way_of,their and=he/it_saw Mīkāh that/for/because/then/when strong they(emph) from=him/it
If it would be more natural in your language, you could reverse the order of these phrases, since the second phrase gives the reason for the result that the first phrase describes. Alternate translation: [Since Micah realized that the Danites were stronger than he was, they were able to go on their way]
18:1-31 The migration of the Danites (cp. Josh 19:40-48) is the story of that tribe’s failure to obey God’s covenant, and it is indicative of Israel’s decline. What began as Micah’s private heresy (Judg 17:4-5) would become the apostasy of an entire tribe (18:30-31). What began as covenant failure (1:19-36) turned into social breakdown in the days of Jephthah and Samson (chs 11–16). In the end, law and order were replaced by banditry and pillaging (18:27-28).
OET (OET-LV) And_ the_descendants_of _went of_Dān on_way_of_their and_ Mīkāh _he/it_saw if/because_that [were_too]_strong they from_him/it and_turned and_went_back to home_of_his.
OET (OET-RV) Then Micah realised that they were too strong for them, so they turned back around and went home.
¶ So the Danites continued onward,
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The Hebrew text, lemmas, and morphology are all thanks to the OSHB and some of the glosses are from Macula Hebrew.