Deuteronomy 33:22

God's Word

About the tribe of Dan he said, “The people of Dan are a lion cub. Out of Bashan they pounce ⌞on their enemies⌟.”

Cross References

1 Chronicles 12:35

From Dan there were 28,600 ready for battle.

Job 37:1

“My heart pounds because of this and jumps out of its place.

Ezekiel 19:2

Say: Your mother was like a lioness. She lay down among the lions. She fed many cubs.

Ezekiel 19:3

One of the cubs she raised became a young lion. He learned to tear apart the animals he hunted. He ate people.

Joshua 19:47

The border of Dan extended beyond them. Dan’s descendants went up and attacked Leshem, captured it, and killed everyone there. They took it, settled there, and renamed the city Dan after their ancestor Dan.

Judges 13:2

There was a man from Zorah named Manoah. Manoah was from the family of Dan. His wife was not able to have children.

Judges 14:19

When the Lord’s Spirit came over him, he went to Ashkelon and killed 30 men there. He took their clothes and gave them to the men who solved the riddle. He was angry, and he went to his father’s house.

Judges 14:6

The Lord’s Spirit came over him. With his bare hands, he tore the lion apart as if it were a young goat. He didn’t tell his parents what he had done.

Judges 15:15

Samson found the jawbone from a donkey that had just died. He picked it up and killed 1,000 men with it.

Judges 15:8

So he attacked them violently and slaughtered them. Then he went to live in a cave in the cliff at Etam.

Judges 16:30

“Let me die with the Philistines,” he said. With that, he pushed with all his might, and the building fell on the rulers and everyone in it. So he killed more Philistines when he died than he had when he was alive.

Judges 18:27

The people of Dan took what Micah had made and the man who had become his priest and went to the city of Laish. They attacked a peaceful and secure people, killed them all with swords, and burned their city.