Verse 22

Blessing on Dan Of Dan he said: Dan is a lion’s cub; he will leap forth from Bashan.

Referenced Verses

  • Josh 19:47 : 47 (The Danites failed to conquer their territory, so they went up and fought with Leshem and captured it. They put the sword to it, took possession of it, and lived in it. They renamed it Dan after their ancestor.)
  • Judg 18:27 : 27 Now the Danites took what Micah had made, as well as his priest, and came to Laish, where the people were undisturbed and unsuspecting. They struck them down with the sword and burned the city.
  • 1 Chr 12:35 : 35 From Dan there were 28,600 men prepared for battle.
  • Gen 49:16-17 : 16 Dan will judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel. 17 May Dan be a snake beside the road, a viper by the path, that bites the heels of the horse so that its rider falls backward.
  • Judg 13:2 : 2 There was a man named Manoah from Zorah, from the Danite tribe. His wife was infertile and childless.
  • Judg 13:24-25 : 24 Manoah’s wife gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The child grew and the LORD empowered him. 25 The LORD’s Spirit began to control him in Mahaneh Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
  • Judg 14:6 : 6 The LORD’s Spirit empowered him and he tore the lion in two with his bare hands as easily as one would tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.
  • Judg 14:19 : 19 The LORD’s Spirit empowered him. He went down to Ashkelon and killed thirty men. He took their clothes and gave them to the men who had solved the riddle. He was furious as he went back home.
  • Judg 15:8 : 8 He struck them down and defeated them. Then he went down and lived for a time in the cave in the cliff of Etam.
  • Judg 15:15 : 15 He happened to see a solid jawbone of a donkey. He grabbed it and struck down a thousand men.
  • Judg 16:30 : 30 Samson said,“Let me die with the Philistines!” He pushed hard and the temple collapsed on the rulers and all the people in it. He killed many more people in his death than he had killed during his life.