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<p> '''Dan.''' ''(a judge).'' </p> <p> 1. The fifth son of Jacob, and the first of Bilhah, Rachel's maid. &nbsp;Genesis 30:6. [[(B.C.]] After 1753). The origin of the name is given in the exclamation of Rachel. The records of Dan are unusually meagre. Only one son is attributed to him, &nbsp;Genesis 46:23, but his tribe was, with the exception of Judah, the most numerous of all. In the division of the [[Promised]] Land, Dan was the last of the tribes to receive his portion, which was the smallest of the twelve. &nbsp;Joshua 19:48, But notwithstanding its smallness, it had eminent natural advantages. </p> <p> On the north and east, it was completely embraced by its two brother tribes, [[Ephraim]] and Benjamin, while on the southeast and south, it joined Judah, and was thus, surrounded by the three most powerful states of the whole confederacy. It was a rich and fertile district; but the Amorites soon "forced them into the mountain," &nbsp;Judges 1:34, and they had another portion granted them. Judges 18. In the "security" and "quiet," &nbsp;Judges 18:7; &nbsp;Judges 18:10, of their rich northern possession, the Danites enjoyed the leisure and repose which had been denied them in their original seat. </p> <p> In the time of David, Dan still kept its place among the tribes. &nbsp;1 Chronicles 12:35. [[Asher]] is omitted, but the "prince of the tribe of Dan" is mentioned in the list of &nbsp;1 Chronicles 27:22. But from this time forward, the name as applied to the tribe vanishes; it is kept alive only by the northern city. In the genealogies of 1 Chronicles 2-12, Dan is omitted entirely. Lastly, Dan is omitted from the list of those who were sealed by the angel in the vision of St. John. &nbsp;Revelation 7:5-7. </p> <p> 2. The well-known city, so familiar as the most northern landmark of Palestine, in the common expression "from Dan even to Beersheba." The name of the place was originally '''Laish''' or '''Leshem''' . &nbsp;Joshua 19:47. After the establishment of the Danites at Dan, it became the acknowledged extremity of the country. It is now ''Tell el-Kadi,'' a mound, three miles from Banias, from the foot of which gushes out one of the largest fountains in the world, the main source of the Jordan. </p>

<p> '''Dan''' (''dăn'' ), &nbsp;Judges 1:1-36. [[A]] son of Jacob by bis concubine Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid. &nbsp;Genesis 30:6; &nbsp;Genesis 35:25; &nbsp;Exodus 1:4; &nbsp;1 Chronicles 2:2. Of Dan's personal history we know nothing, except that he had one son, Hushim or Shuham. &nbsp;Genesis 46:23; &nbsp;Numbers 26:42. He shared with Ms brethren the prophetic blessing of Jacob, &nbsp;Genesis 49:16-17, fulfilled, perhaps, in the administration of Samson, and in the craft and stratagem which his descendants used against their enemies. Other explanations, however, have been given. Those descendants multiplied largely; for at the first census after quitting Egypt the tribe numbered 62,700 males above 20 years of age; and, when numbered again on their coming to Jordan, they were 64,400. &nbsp;Numbers 1:38-39; &nbsp;Numbers 26:42-43. Moses ere his death, like Jacob, pronounced a prophetic blessing on the tribe: "Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan," &nbsp;Deuteronomy 33:22, fulfilled in the predatory expeditions of which one at least is recorded in their subsequent history. ''2,'' The territory in [[Canaan]] allotted to Dan was on the seacoast, west of Benjamin and between Ephraim and Judah. It embraced a broad plain, 14 miles long, near the sea. The Amorites kept them from the plain and forced them into the mountains. Hence they had another portion granted them, near Mount Hermon, &nbsp;Judges 18:1-31, where they set up a graven image stolen from &nbsp;Micah 3:1-12. Dan, city of, the chief city of the northern district held by this tribe. &nbsp;Judges 20:1. It was originally called Laish, &nbsp;Judges 18:29; noted for idolatry, &nbsp;Judges 18:30; now called Tel-el-Kâdy, or "Mound of the Judge," three miles from Banias, north of the waters of Merom. 4. The Dan of &nbsp;Ezekiel 27:19, [[R.]] [[V.]] "Vedan." is possibly the same as No. 2. but some identify it with Dedar, others with Aden, in Arabia. </p>