Joshua 19:47
47When athe territory of the people of Dan was lost to them, the people of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and after capturing it and striking it with the sword they took possession of it and settled in it, calling Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor.Judges 2:10-13
10And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord or the work that he had done for Israel.Israel’s Unfaithfulness
11 bAnd the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals. 12 cAnd they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. dThey went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and ebowed down to them. fAnd they provoked the Lord to anger. 13They abandoned the Lord gand served the Baals and the Ashtaroth.Judges 3:5-8
5So the people of Israel lived hamong the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 6 iAnd their daughters they took to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.Othniel
7 jAnd the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and kthe Asheroth. 8Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, land he sold them into the hand of mCushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.Judges 13:25
25 nAnd the Spirit of the Lord began to stir him in Mahaneh-dan, between oZorah and Eshtaol.Judges 18:1
Danites Take the Levite and the Idol
1 pIn those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days qthe tribe of the people of Dan was seeking for itself an inheritance to dwell in, for until then no inheritance among the tribes of Israel had fallen to them.Judges 18:7
7Then the five men departed and came to rLaish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, squiet and unsuspecting, lacking ▼▼Compare 18:10; the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
nothing that is in the earth and possessing wealth, and how uthey were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone. Judges 18:12
12and went up and encamped at Kiriath-jearim in Judah. On this account that place is called vMahaneh-dan ▼▼ Mahaneh-dan means camp of Dan
to this day; behold, it is west of xKiriath-jearim. Judges 18:27
27But the people of Dan took what Micah had made, and the priest who belonged to him, and they came to Laish, to a people yquiet and unsuspecting, and zstruck them with the edge of the sword and burned the city with fire.
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