Deuteronomy 33:22

New International Version

About Dan he said: “Dan is a lion’s cub, springing out of Bashan.”

Cross References

1 Chronicles 12:35

from Dan, ready for battle—28,600;

Job 37:1

“At this my heart pounds and leaps from its place.

Ezekiel 19:2

and say: “ ‘What a lioness was your mother among the lions! She lay down among them and reared her cubs.

Ezekiel 19:3

She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a strong lion. He learned to tear the prey and he became a man-eater.

Joshua 19:47

(When the territory of the Danites was lost to them, they went up and attacked Leshem, took it, put it to the sword and occupied it. They settled in Leshem and named it Dan after their ancestor.)

Judges 13:2

A certain man of Zorah, named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, had a wife who was childless, unable to give birth.

Judges 14:19

Then the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him. He went down to Ashkelon, struck down thirty of their men, stripped them of everything and gave their clothes to those who had explained the riddle. Burning with anger, he returned to his father’s home.

Judges 14:6

The Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him so that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as he might have torn a young goat. But he told neither his father nor his mother what he had done.

Judges 15:15

Finding a fresh jawbone of a donkey, he grabbed it and struck down a thousand men.

Judges 15:8

He attacked them viciously and slaughtered 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 the Philistines!” Then he pushed with all his might, and down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it. Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived.

Judges 18:27

Then they took what Micah had made, and his priest, and went on to Laish, against a people at peace and secure. They attacked them with the sword and burned down their city.