Deuteronomy 33:22

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

And of Dan he said, “Dan is a lion’s whelp that leaps forth from Bashan.”

Cross References

1 Chronicles 12:35

Of the Danites, twenty-eight thousand six hundred equipped for battle.

Job 37:1

“At this also my heart trembles and leaps out of its place.

Ezekiel 19:2

and say: What a lioness was your mother among lions! She lay down among young lions, rearing her cubs.

Ezekiel 19:3

She raised up one of her cubs; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured humans.

Joshua 19:47

When the territory of the Danites was lost to them, the Danites went up and fought against Leshem, and after capturing it and putting it to the sword, they took possession of it and settled in it, calling Leshem Dan, after their ancestor Dan.

Judges 13:2

There was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. His wife was barren, having borne no children.

Judges 14:19

Then the spirit of the Lord rushed on him, and he went down to Ashkelon. He killed thirty men of the town, took their spoil, and gave the festal garments to those who had explained the riddle. In hot anger he went back to his father’s house.

Judges 14:6

The spirit of the Lord rushed on him, and he tore the lion apart barehanded as one might tear apart a kid. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.

Judges 15:15

Then he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached down and took it, and with it he killed a thousand men.

Judges 15:8

He struck them down hip and thigh with a massive defeat, and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

Judges 16:30

Then Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” He strained with all his might, and the house fell on the lords and all the people who were in it. So those he killed at his death were more than those he had killed during his life.

Judges 18:27

The Danites, having taken what Micah had made and the priest who belonged to him, came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, put them to the sword, and burned down the city.