Joshua 19:45-48

Contemporary English Version

Dan's Land

^40-46Dan was the seventh tribe chosen to receive land, and the region for its clans included the following towns:

Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-Shemesh,^[a] Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah, Elon, Timnah, Ekron, Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath, Jehud, Azor,^[b] Beneberak, Gath-Rimmon, Mejarkon, and Rakkon.

Dan's tribal land^[c] went almost as far as Joppa. ^47-48^(A) Its clans received this land and these towns with their surrounding villages.

Later, when enemies^[d] forced them to leave their tribal land, they went to the town of Leshem. They attacked the town, captured it, and killed the people who lived there. Then they settled there themselves and renamed the town Dan after their ancestor.

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Footnotes

19.40-46 Ir-Shemesh: Possibly the same town as the Beth-Shemesh of 15.10.
19.40-46 Azor: Some manuscripts of one ancient translation; the Hebrew text does not have this word.
19.40-46 Gath-Rimmon, Mejarkon, and Rakkon. Dan's tribal land: Or “Gath-Rimmon, and Rakkon. Dan's tribal land also included the Yarkon River and.”
19.47,48 enemies: Probably the Philistines.