Deuteronomy 33:22

New Century Version

Moses said this about the people of Dan: “Dan is like a lion’s cub, who jumps out of Bashan.”

Cross References

1 Chronicles 12:35

There were twenty-eight thousand six hundred men from Dan, who were ready for war.

Job 37:1

“At the sound of his thunder, my heart pounds as if it will jump out of my chest.

Ezekiel 19:2

Say: ‘Your mother was like a female lion. She lay down among the young lions. She had many cubs.

Ezekiel 19:3

When she brought up one of her cubs, he became a strong lion. He learned to tear the animals he hunted, and he ate people.

Joshua 19:47

(But the Danites had trouble taking their land. They went and fought against Leshem, defeated it, and killed the people who lived there. So the Danites moved into the town of Leshem and changed its name to Dan, because he was the father of their tribe.)

Judges 13:2

There was a man named Manoah from the tribe of Dan, who lived in the city of Zorah. He had a wife, but she could not have children.

Judges 14:19

Then the Spirit of the Lord entered Samson and gave him great power. Samson went down to the city of Ashkelon and killed thirty of its men and took all that they had and gave the clothes to the men who had answered his riddle. Then he went to his father’s house very angry.

Judges 14:6

The Spirit of the Lord entered Samson with great power, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands. For him it was as easy as tearing apart a young goat. But Samson did not tell his father or mother what he had done.

Judges 15:15

Samson found the jawbone of a dead donkey, took it, and killed a thousand men with it!

Judges 15:8

Samson attacked the Philistines and killed many of them. Then he went down and stayed in a cave in the rock of Etam.

Judges 16:30

Samson said, “Let me die with these Philistines!” Then he pushed as hard as he could, causing the temple to fall on the rulers and all the people in it. So Samson killed more of the Philistines when he died than when he was alive.

Judges 18:27

Then the Danites took what Micah had made and his priest and went on to Laish. They attacked those peaceful people and killed them with their swords and then burned the city.