Genesis 49:16

Jacob Blesses His Twelve Sons

¹⁵ He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor. ¹⁶ "Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. ¹⁷ Dan will be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, That bites the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward.

Tribes of Israel

Dan

Israel

Genesis 30:6

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

Deuteronomy 33:22

Of Dan he said, "Dan is a lion's cub that leaps out of Bashan."

Numbers 10:25

The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rear guard of all the camps, set forward according to their armies. Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai was over his army.

Judges 13:2

There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and didn't bear.

Judges 13:24-25

The woman bore a son, and named him Samson: and the child grew, and Yahweh blessed him.

Judges 15:20

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 sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day [their] inheritance had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel.

Judges 18:26-27

The children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.