Verse 1

In those days there was no king in Israel, and in those days the Danites were looking for a heritage for themselves, to be their living-place; for up to that time no distribution of land had been made to them among the tribes of Israel.

Referenced Verses

  • Judg 17:6 : 6 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did as seemed right to him.
  • Judg 19:1 : 1 Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living in the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he got for himself a servant-wife from Beth-lehem-judah.
  • Judg 21:25 : 25 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did what seemed right to him.
  • Josh 19:40-48 : 40 For the tribe of Dan by their families the seventh heritage came out; 41 And the limit of their heritage was Zorah and Eshtaol and Ir-shemesh 42 And Shaalabbin and Aijalon and Ithlah 43 And Elon and Timnah and Ekron 44 And Eltekeh and Gibbethon and Baalath 45 And Jehud and Bene-berak and Gath-rimmon; 46 And on the west was ... opposite Joppa. 47 (But the limit of the children of Dan was not wide enough for them; so the children of Dan went up and made war on Leshem and took it, putting it to the sword without mercy, and they took it for their heritage and made a place for themselves there, giving it the name of Leshem-dan, after the name of their father, Dan.) 48 This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Dan by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.
  • Judg 1:34 : 34 And the children of Dan were forced into the hill-country by the Amorites, who would not let them come down into the valley;