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Summary

And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.

Bible References

General references

Genesis 49:16
Dan will judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.
Joshua 19:47
(The Danites failed to conquer their territory, so they went up and fought with Leshem and captured it. They put the sword to it, took possession of it, and lived in it. They renamed it Dan after their ancestor.)
Judges 13:2
There was a man named Manoah from Zorah, from the Danite tribe. His wife was infertile and childless.
Judges 14:6
The Lord's spirit empowered him and he tore the lion in two with his bare hands as easily as one would tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.
Judges 15:8
He struck them down and defeated them. Then he went down and lived for a time in the cave in the cliff of Etam.
Judges 16:30
Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" He pushed hard and the temple collapsed on the rulers and all the people in it. He killed many more people in his death than he had killed during his life.
Judges 18:27
Now the Danites took what Micah had made, as well as his priest, and came to Laish, where the people were undisturbed and unsuspecting. They struck them down with the sword and burned the city.
1 Chronicles 12:35
From Dan there were 28,600 men prepared for battle.

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