Judg 18:29, 1Sa 3:20, 2Sa 3:10, 24:2, 1Ch 21:2, 2Ch 30:5 | TSK | STEP | Dan. who was. Laish, or Dan, was situated at the northern extremity of the land of Canaan, in a beautiful and fertile plain, at the foot of mount Lebanon, on the springs of Jordan, and, according to Eusebius, four miles from Cæsarea Philippi, or Paneas, now Banias, (with which some have confounded it,) towards Tyre. Burckhardt says, that the source of the river El Dhan, or Jordan, is at an hour's distance from Banias, which agrees with Eusebius.

Judges 18:29

Dan.

20:1; Ge 14:14; Jos 19:47; 2Sa 17:11; 1Ki 12:29,30; 15:20

who was.

Ge 30:6; 32:28Laish, or Dan, was situated at the northern extremity of the land of Canaan, in a beautiful and fertile plain, at the foot of mount Lebanon, on the springs of Jordan, and, according to Eusebius, four miles from Cæsarea Philippi, or Paneas, now Banias, (with which some have confounded it,) towards Tyre. Burckhardt says, that the source of the river El Dhan, or Jordan, is at an hour's distance from Banias, which agrees with Eusebius.

1 Samuel 3:20

Dan.

Jud 20:1; 2Sa 3:10; 17:11

established. or, faithful.

1Ti 1:12

2 Samuel 3:10

from Dan.

17:11; 24:2; Jud 20:1; 1Ki 4:25

2 Samuel 24:2

Joab.

2:13; 8:16; 20:23; 23:37

Go now, etc. or, Compass now all.

1Ch 21:2

from Dan.

3:10; 17:11; Jud 20:1

and number.We know not in what the sinfulness of this action consisted. Some think it was a contempt of the promise that the Israelites should be innumerable, and that they ought not to have been numbered without an express command, as in the days of Moses. Others suppose with Josephus that it was a kind of sacrilege, in omitting to collect the half-shekel a-piece for the use of the sanctuary. It however would appear that pride and ambition, and a desire of conquest, induced David to this measure, and rendered it so displeasing to God.

that I may.

De 8:13,14; 2Ch 32:25,26,31; Pr 29:23; Jer 17:5; 2Co 12:7