Deuteronomy 33:22

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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 men 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 couched in the midst of young lions, rearing her whelps.

Ezekiel 19:3

And she brought up one of her whelps; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men.

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 the name of Dan their ancestor.

Judges 13:2

And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had no children.

Judges 14:19

And the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon and killed thirty men of the town, and took their spoil and gave the festal garments to those who had told the riddle. In hot anger he went back to his father's house.

Judges 14:6

and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and he tore the lion asunder as one tears a kid; and he had nothing in his hand. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.

Judges 15:15

And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put out his hand and seized it, and with it he slew a thousand men.

Judges 15:8

And he smote them hip and thigh with great slaughter; and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

Judges 16:30

And Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” Then he bowed with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people that were in it. So the dead whom he slew at his death were more than those whom he had slain during his life.

Judges 18:27

And taking what Micah had made, and the priest who belonged to him, the Danites came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and burned the city with fire.