35:25 The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, were Dan and Naphtali.
49:16 Dan 4 will judge 5 his people
as one of the tribes of Israel.
49:17 May Dan be a snake beside the road,
a viper by the path,
that bites the heels of the horse
so that its rider falls backward. 6
1:12 from Dan, Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai;
1:38 From the descendants of Dan: According to the records of their clans and families, all the males twenty years old or older who could serve in the army were listed by name. 1:39 Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Dan were 62,700.
10:25 The standard of the camp of the Danites set out, which was the rear guard 7 of all the camps by their companies; over his company was Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.
33:22 Of Dan he said:
Dan is a lion’s cub;
he will leap forth from Bashan. 8
33:1 This is the blessing Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.
7:12 If you obey these ordinances and are careful to do them, the Lord your God will faithfully keep covenant with you 9 as he promised 10 your ancestors.
7:1 When the Lord your God brings you to the land that you are going to occupy and forces out many nations before you – Hittites, 11 Girgashites, 12 Amorites, 13 Canaanites, 14 Perizzites, 15 Hivites, 16 and Jebusites, 17 seven 18 nations more numerous and powerful than you –
12:1 These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to obey as long as you live in the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, 19 has given you to possess. 20
1 tn Heb “and also he has heard my voice.” The expression means that God responded positively to Rachel’s cry and granted her request.
2 tn Or “therefore.”
3 sn The name Dan means “he vindicated” or “he judged.” The name plays on the verb used in the statement which appears earlier in the verse. The verb translated “vindicated” is from דִּין (din, “to judge, to vindicate”), the same verbal root from which the name is derived. Rachel sensed that God was righting the wrong.
4 sn The name Dan (דָּן, dan) means “judge” and forms a wordplay with the following verb.
5 tn Or “govern.”
6 sn The comparison of the tribe of Dan to a venomous serpent is meant to say that Dan, though small, would be potent, gaining victory through its skill and shrewdness. Jewish commentators have linked the image in part with Samson. That link at least illustrates the point: Though a minority tribe, Dan would gain the upper hand over others.
7 tn The MT uses a word that actually means “assembler,” so these three tribes made up a strong rear force recognized as the assembler of all the tribes.
8 sn He will leap forth from Bashan. This may refer to Dan’s conquest of Laish, a region just to the west of Bashan (Judg 18:27-28).
9 tn Heb “will keep with you the covenant and loyalty.” On the construction used here, see v. 9.
10 tn Heb “which he swore on oath.” The relative pronoun modifies “covenant,” so one could translate “will keep faithfully the covenant (or promise) he made on oath to your ancestors.”
11 sn Hittites. The center of Hittite power was in Anatolia (central modern Turkey). In the Late Bronze Age (1550-1200
12 sn Girgashites. These cannot be ethnically identified and are unknown outside the OT. They usually appear in such lists only when the intention is to have seven groups in all (see also the note on the word “seven” later in this verse).
13 sn Amorites. Originally from the upper Euphrates region (Amurru), the Amorites appear to have migrated into Canaan beginning in 2200
14 sn Canaanites. These were the indigenous peoples of the land, going back to the beginning of recorded history (ca. 3000
15 sn Perizzites. This is probably a subgroup of Canaanites (Gen 13:7; 34:30).
16 sn Hivites. These are usually thought to be the same as the Hurrians, a people well-known in ancient Near Eastern texts. They are likely identical to the Horites (see note on the term “Horites” in Deut 2:12).
17 sn Jebusites. These inhabited the hill country, particularly in and about Jerusalem (cf. Num 13:29; Josh 15:8; 2 Sam 5:6; 24:16).
18 sn Seven. This is an ideal number in the OT, one symbolizing fullness or completeness. Therefore, the intent of the text here is not to be precise and list all of Israel’s enemies but simply to state that Israel will have a full complement of foes to deal with. For other lists of Canaanites, some with fewer than seven peoples, see Exod 3:8; 13:5; 23:23, 28; 33:2; 34:11; Deut 20:17; Josh 3:10; 9:1; 24:11. Moreover, the “Table of Nations” (Gen 10:15-19) suggests that all of these (possibly excepting the Perizzites) were offspring of Canaan and therefore Canaanites.
19 tn Heb “fathers.”
20 tn Heb “you must be careful to obey in the land the