Dan
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Dan
[Gen 14:14 ] When Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he led out his three hundred and eighteen trained men, born in his house, and pursued the attackers as far as Dan.
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Tel Dan Tour, Israel: Fall of Northern 10 Tribes of Israel, Jeroboam Golden Calf Altar
Tel Dan Tour, Israel: Part 1: Fall of the Northern 10 Tribes of Israel, Jeroboam's Golden Calf Altar
Tel Dan Tour, Israel: Part 2: Fall of the Northern 10 Tribes of Israel, Jeroboam's Golden Calf Altar
The Tel Dan Stele: A Good Answers Ministries Christian Apologetics Video One of the Good Answers series, this video tells of the discovery of the inscription at Tel Dan that includes the first ancient extrabiblical mention of the "House of David.' Though its authenticity was challenged at first, the accumulated evidence has shown that the inscription is genuine.
Tel Dan Stele - Evidence of King David?
The Ancient Gate at Tel Dan
Tel Dan - Biblical Tour of Israel 2019
Tel Dan - 2nd Golden Calf Site Tour
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Tel Dan stela
The Tel Dan Stele is a fragmentary stele containing a Canaanite inscription which dates to the 9th century BCE. It is notable for possibly being the most significant and perhaps the only extra-biblical archaeological reference to the house of David.
The Tel Dan Stele was discovered in 1993 in Tel-Dan by Gila Cook, a member of an archaeological team led by Avraham Biran. Its pieces were used to construct an ancient stone wall that survived into modern times. The stele contains several lines of Aramaic, closely related to Hebrew and historically a common language among Jews. The surviving inscription details that an individual killed Jehoram of Israel, the son of Ahab and king of the house of David. These writings corroborate passages from the Bible, as the Second Book of Kings mentions that Jehoram, also Joram, is the son of an Israelite king, Ahab, by his Phoenician wife, Jezebel. Applying a Biblical viewpoint to the inscription, the likely candidate for having erected the stele is Hazael, an Aramean king (whose language would have thus been Aramaic) who is mentioned in the Second Book of Kings as having conquered the Land of Israel, though he was unable to take Jerusalem. The stele is currently on display at the Israel Museum, and is known as KAI 310.
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Dan
a judge.
(1.) The fifth son of Jacob. His mother was Bilhah, Rachel's maid [(Gen 30:6 ), "God hath judged me", Heb. dananni]. The blessing pronounced on him by his father was, "Dan shall judge his people" (Gen 49:16 ), probably in allusion to the judgeship of Samson, who was of the tribe of Dan.
The tribe of Dan had their place in the march through the wilderness on the north side of the tabernacle (Num 2:25 ; 2:31; 10:25). It was the last of the tribes to receive a portion in the Land of Promise. Its position and extent are described in (Josh 19:40 -48).
The territory of Dan extended from the west of that of Ephraim and Benjamin to the sea. It was a small territory, but was very fertile. It included in it, among others, the cities of Lydda, Ekron, and Joppa, which formed its northern boundary. but this district was too limited. "Squeezed into the narrow strip between the mountains and the sea, its energies were great beyond its numbers." Being pressed by the Amorites and the Philistines, whom they were unable to conquer, they longed for a wider space. They accordingly sent out five spies from two of their towns, who went north to the sources of the Jordan, and brought back a favourable report regarding that region. "Arise," they said, "be not slothful to go, and to possess the land," for it is "a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth" (Judg 18:10 ). On receiving this report, 600 Danites girded on their weapons of war, and taking with them their wives and their children, marched to the foot of Hermon, and fought against Leshem, and took it from the Sidonians, and dwelt therein, and changed the name of the conquered town to Dan (Josh 19:47 ). This new city of Dan became to them a new home, and was wont to be spoken of as the northern limit of Palestine, the length of which came to be denoted by the expression "from Dan to Beersheba", i.e., about 144 miles.
"But like Lot under a similar temptation, they seem to have succumbed to the evil influences around them, and to have sunk down into a condition of semi-heathenism from which they never emerged. The mounds of ruins which mark the site of the city show that it covered a considerable extent of ground. But there remains no record of any noble deed wrought by the degenerate tribe. Their name disappears from the roll-book of the natural and the spiritual Israel.", Manning's Those Holy Fields.
This old border city was originally called Laish. Its modern name is Tell el-Kady, "Hill of the Judge." It stands about four miles below Caesarea Philippi, in the midst of a region of surpassing richness and beauty.
(2.) This name occurs in (Ezek 27:19 ), Authorize Version; but the words there, "Dan also," should be simply, as in the Revised Version, "Vedan," an Arabian city, from which various kinds of merchandise were brought to Tyre. Some suppose it to have been the city of Aden in Arabia. (See MAHANEH-DAN)
EBD - Easton's Bible Dictionary