Joshua 19:47

Good News Translation

When the people of Dan lost their land, they went to Laish and attacked it. They captured it, killed its people, and claimed it for themselves. They settled there and changed the name of the city from Laish to Dan, naming it after their ancestor Dan.

Cross References

2 Samuel 24:6

and on to Gilead and to Kadesh, in Hittite territory. Then they went to Dan, and from Dan they went west to Sidon.

Deuteronomy 33:22

About the tribe of Dan he said: “Dan is a young lion; He leaps out from Bashan.”

Joshua 19:46

Mejarkon, and Rakkon, as well as the territory around Joppa.

Joshua 19:48

These cities and their towns were in the land which the families of the tribe of Dan received as their possession.