Deuteronomy 33:22

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Tribe of Dan, you are like a lion cub, startled by a snake.

Cross References

Job 37:1

I am frightened and tremble all over,

Ezekiel 19:2

Your mother was a brave lioness who raised her cubs among lions.

Ezekiel 19:3

She taught one of them to hunt, and he learnt to eat people.

Joshua 19:47

Its clans received this land and these towns with their surrounding villages. Later, when enemies forced them to leave their tribal land, they went to the town of Leshem. They attacked the town, captured it, and killed the people who lived there. Then they settled there themselves and renamed the town Dan after their ancestor.

Judges 13:2

Manoah from the tribe of Dan lived in the town of Zorah. His wife was not able to have children,

Judges 14:19

Then the LORD's Spirit took control of Samson. He went to Ashkelon, where he killed thirty men and took their clothing. Samson then gave it to the thirty young men at Timnah and stormed back home to his own family.

Judges 14:6

But the LORD's Spirit took control of Samson, and with his bare hands he tore the lion apart, as though it had been a young goat. His parents didn't know what he had done, and he didn't tell them.

Judges 15:15

Samson glanced around and spotted the jawbone of a donkey. The jawbone had not yet dried out, so it was still hard and heavy. Samson grabbed it and started hitting Philistines—he killed a thousand of them!

Judges 15:8

Then Samson started hacking them to pieces with his sword. Samson left Philistia and went to live in the cave at Etam Rock.

Judges 16:30

Then he shouted, “Let me die with the Philistines!” He pushed against the columns as hard as he could, and the temple collapsed with the Philistine rulers and everyone else still inside. Samson killed more Philistines when he died than he had killed during his entire life.

Judges 18:27

The tribe of Dan took Micah's priest and the things Micah had made, and headed for Laish, which was in a valley controlled by the town of Beth-Rehob. Laish was defenceless, because it had no walls and was too far from Sidon for the Sidonians to help defend it. The leaders of Laish had not even asked nearby towns to help them in case of an attack. The warriors from Dan made a surprise attack on Laish, killing everyone and burning it down. Then they rebuilt the town and settled there themselves.