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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Leshem
An older form of Laish, the Canaanite city Dan took and renamed after leaving its assigned land on the coast. Tel Dan, the site, produced the Tel Dan Stele, where an Aramean king boasts of beating the "house of David," the earliest mention of David's dynasty outside the Bible.
An older form of Laish, the Canaanite city Dan took and renamed after leaving its assigned land on the coast. Tel Dan, the site, produced the Tel Dan Stele, where an Aramean king boasts of beating the "house of David," the earliest mention of David's dynasty outside the Bible.
Leshem is an older form of the name Laish, the Canaanite city that the tribe of Dan captured and resettled after abandoning their assigned coastal territory, renaming it Dan after their ancestor (Joshua 19:47; compare the fuller account in Judges 18). The site, at Tel Dan in northern Israel, has been extensively excavated and is best known for producing the Tel Dan Stele, a ninth-century BC inscription in which an Aramean king boasts of defeating the "house of David," the earliest extrabiblical reference to David's dynasty.
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- Joshua 19:47
