Deuteronomy 33:22

New International Reader's Version

Here’s what Moses said about Dan. “Dan is like a lion’s cub that charges out of the land of Bashan.”

Cross References

1 Chronicles 12:35

The men from Dan were ready for battle. The total number of them was 28,600.

Job 37:1

“When I hear the thunder, my heart pounds. It beats faster inside me.

Ezekiel 19:2

Say to Israel, “ ‘You were like a mother lion to your princes. She lay down among the lions. She brought up her cubs.

Ezekiel 19:3

One of them was Jehoahaz. He became a strong lion. He learned to tear apart what he caught. And he became a man-eater.

Joshua 19:47

The people of Dan lost their territory. So they went up and attacked Leshem. They captured it. They killed its people with their swords. Then they moved into Leshem and made their homes there. They named it Dan. That’s because they traced their family line back to him.

Judges 13:2

A certain man from Zorah was named Manoah. He was from the tribe of Dan. Manoah had a wife who wasn’t able to have children.

Judges 14:19

Then the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully on Samson. He went down to Ashkelon. He struck down 30 of their men. He took everything they had with them. And he gave their clothes to those who had explained the riddle. Samson was very angry as he returned to his father’s home.

Judges 14:6

Then the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully on Samson. So he tore the lion apart with his bare hands. He did it as easily as he might have torn a young goat apart. But he didn’t tell his father or mother what he had done.

Judges 15:15

He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey. He grabbed it and struck down 1,000 men.

Judges 15:8

He struck them down with heavy blows. He killed many of them. Then he went down and stayed in a cave. It was in the rock of Etam.

Judges 16:30

Samson said, “Let me die together with the Philistines!” Then he pushed with all his might. The temple came down on the rulers. It fell on all the people in it. So Samson killed many more Philistines when he died than he did while he lived.

Judges 18:27

The people of Dan took what Micah had made. They also took his priest. They continued on their way to Laish. They went there to fight against a people who were at peace and secure. The people of Dan struck them down with their swords. They burned down their city.