“Dan will govern his people, like any other tribe in Israel.
Rachel named him Dan, for she said, “God has vindicated me! He has heard my request and given me a son.”
When he sees how good the countryside is and how pleasant the land, he will bend his shoulder to the load and submit himself to hard labor.
Dan will be a snake beside the road, a poisonous viper along the path that bites the horse’s hooves so its rider is thrown off.
Dan’s troops went last, marching behind their banner and serving as the rear guard for all the tribal camps. Their leader was Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.
Moses said this about the tribe of Dan: “Dan is a lion’s cub, leaping out from Bashan.”
In those days a man named Manoah from the tribe of Dan lived in the town of Zorah. His wife was unable to become pregnant, and they had no children.
Samson judged Israel for twenty years during the period when the Philistines dominated the land.