Tribe of Dan
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The Tribe of Dan (
Biblical narrative
In the Biblical
Conquest and territory
According to the biblical narrative, following the completion of the conquest of
To the north the territory of Dan abutted Joppa, the modern
From after the conquest of the land by Joshua until the formation of the first
The most celebrated Danite was
As a consequence of the pressure from the Philistines, a portion of the tribe abandoned hopes of settling near the central coast, instead migrating to the north of Philistine territory, and after conquering Laish, refounded it as the city of Dan (Judges 18). Thus their territory in the end lay northeast of that of Naphtali, east of the upper Jordan River, near its eastern sources, and defining the northern extent of the land of the Israelites. A number of biblical texts thus refer to "All Israel, from Dan to Beersheba".
United Monarchy
With the growth of the threat from Philistine incursions, the Israelite tribes decided to form a strong centralised monarchy to meet the challenge, and the Tribe of Dan joined the new kingdom with Saul as the first king. After the death of Saul, all the tribes other than Judah remained loyal to the House of Saul. But after the death of Ish-bosheth, Saul's son and successor to the throne of Israel, the Tribe of Dan joined the other northern Israelite tribes in making David, who was then the king of Judah, king of a re-united Kingdom of Israel.[11] The tribe provided substantial military support for the kingdom in the form of 28,600 soldiers, being considered "experts in war".[12]
Northern Kingdom of Israel
However, on the accession of Rehoboam, David's grandson, in c. 930 BC the northern tribes split from the House of David to re-form a Kingdom of Israel as the Northern Kingdom.[11]
Assyrian conquest and demise
As part of the
Claims of descent from Dan
A 15th-century Latin chronicle, "Chronicon Holsatiae vetus", found in
Some of the
Characteristics
The primary characteristic of the tribe of Dan was seafaring.
Iconography
Modern artists use the "scales of justice" to represent the Tribe of Dan due to Genesis 49:16 referencing Dan "shall achieve justice for his kindred". More traditional artists use a snake to represent Dan, based upon Genesis 49:17, "Let Dan be a serpent by the roadside, a horned viper by the path, That bites the horse's heel, so that the rider tumbles backward."
Book of Revelation
See also
- Book of Judges
- British Israelism
- Dan (biblical figure)
- Denyen
- Ten Lost Tribes
References
- ^ Numbers 1:39
- ^ ISBN 0-06-063035-3
- ^ "NUMBERS, BOOK OF - JewishEncyclopedia.com". www.jewishencyclopedia.com.
- ^ a b "DAN - JewishEncyclopedia.com". www.jewishencyclopedia.com.
- ISBN 0-8028-4960-1)
- ^ Petrie, George Laurens (March 23, 1910). "Jacob's Sons". Neale – via Google Books.
- ^ Butler, James Glentworth. "The Bible-work, the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1st and 2nd Samuel, 1 Chronicles XI., 1 Kings I-XI., 2 Chronicles I-IX", Funk & Wagnalls, 1889. p. 129
- ^ "The New American Bible - IntraText". www.vatican.va.
- ^ ISBN 978-3-03910-852-7. p. 278-282
- ^ "Haaretz - Tribe of Dan, Archaeology". Haaretz.
- ^ ISBN 9781884964039– via Google Books.
- ^ "1 Chronicles 12:35", King James Bible Online. Retrieved 15 may 2018
- ^ Quoted in Sharon Turner's "History of the Anglo-Saxons" vol.I., 1799-1805, p. 130 and Suhm: Critisk Historie af Danmark, Vol. 1 (1774), p. 175
- ^ "Witnesses to the Israelite Origin of the Nordic, Germanic, and Anglo-Saxon Peoples - by Mikkel Stjernholm Kragh". www.nordiskisrael.dk.
- ^ J. H. Allen, Judah's Sceptre and Joseph's Birthright, 1902, p. 263-64; John Cox Gawler's Dan, the pioneer of Israel (1880) [1]
- ^ Edward Hine, The English Nation Identified with the Lost House of Israel by Twenty-Seven Identifications, (Manchester: Heywood, 1870), p. v; Life From The Dead, 1874, Vol. I, pp. 327-328.
- ^ Edward Hine (1878). Forty-seven Identifications of the Anglo-Saxons with the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel: Founded Upon Five Hundred Scripture Proofs. p. 295.
- ISBN 978-0-275-97000-0. p. 2
- ISBN 978-1-4020-8073-9. p. 274
- ISBN 978-0-7007-1587-9. p. 153
- ^ Mediterranean archaeology, Volume 16. University of Sydney. Dept. of Archaeology. 2003. p. 117
- ISBN 978-0-691-00968-1. p. 59
- ISBN 978-965-223-651-7. p. 97
- ISBN 978-0-8028-4962-5. p. 270
- ISBN 978-0-8028-2805-7. p. 83
- ^ Against Heresies, Book V, Chapter XXX, paragraph 2
- ISBN 978-0-8264-6657-0. p. 4
- ISBN 978-0-19-973588-4. p. 371
External links
- Media related to Tribe of Dan at Wikimedia Commons