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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Dan
The tribe of Dan and the town it took. Squeezed in its first allotment near the Philistines, the tribe went north, captured Laish and renamed it Dan, Israel's northernmost town and the far end of from Dan to Beersheba. Jeroboam I put one of his golden calves there, and a stele from Tel Dan found in 1993 names the House of David.
The tribe of Dan and the town it took. Squeezed in its first allotment near the Philistines, the tribe went north, captured Laish and renamed it Dan, Israel's northernmost town and the far end of from Dan to Beersheba. Jeroboam I put one of his golden calves there, and a stele from Tel Dan found in 1993 names the House of David.
Dan is both Jacob's fifth son, by Bilhah, and the tribe and northern city that carry his name. Squeezed out of its first allotment near the Philistines, the tribe migrated north, took Laish and renamed it Dan, and the phrase 'from Dan to Beersheba' came to mean the whole length of the land. Jeroboam later set one of his two golden calves there.
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- Genesis 14:14
- Exodus 1:4
- Numbers 1:12
- Deuteronomy 27:13
- Deuteronomy 33:22
- Deuteronomy 34:1
- Joshua 19:47
- Judges 5:17
- Judges 18:29
- Judges 20:1
- 1 Samuel 3:20
- 2 Samuel 3:10
- 2 Samuel 17:11
- 2 Samuel 24:2
- 2 Samuel 24:15
- 1 Kings 4:25
- 1 Kings 12:29
- 1 Kings 12:30
- 1 Kings 15:20
- 2 Kings 10:29
- 1 Chronicles 21:2
- 1 Chronicles 27:22
- 2 Chronicles 16:4
- 2 Chronicles 30:5
- Jeremiah 4:15
- Jeremiah 8:16
- Ezekiel 48:1
