Genesis 49:16

Jacob Blesses His Twelve Sons

¹⁵ He saw a resting place that [was] good, and land that [was] pleasant. So he bowed his shoulder to the burden and became a servant of forced labor. ¹⁶ Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel. ¹⁷ Dan shall be a serpent on the way, a viper on the road that bites the heels of a horse, so that its rider falls backward.

Tribes of Israel

Dan

Israel

Genesis 30:6

Then Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son." Therefore she called his name Dan.

Deuteronomy 33:22

And of Dan he said, "Dan [is] a cub of lion; he leaps from Bashan."

Numbers 10:25

Then the standard of the camp of the descendants of Dan, who formed a rear guard for all the camps, set out according to their divisions; Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai [was] over its division.

Judges 13:2

There was a certain man from Zorah, from the tribe of the Danites, and his name [was] Manoah; his wife [was] infertile and did not bear children.

Judges 13:24-25

The woman bore a son, and she called him Samson; the boy grew big, and Yahweh blessed him.

Judges 15:20

And he judged Israel in the days of [the] Philistines twenty years.

Judges 18:1-2

In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the Danites [was] seeking territory for itself to live in, because until that day it had not been allotted territory among the tribes of Israel.

Judges 18:26-27

And the descendants of Dan went their way. When Micah saw that they [were] stronger than him, he turned to return to his house.