Deuteronomy 33:22
And of Dan he said, Dan is a young lion, springing out from Bashan.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion’s whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 49:16Dan will be the judge of his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
Judges 13:2Now there was a certain man of Zorah of the family of the Danites, and his name was Manoah; and his wife had never given birth to a child.
Judges 14:6And the spirit of the Lord came on him with power, and, unarmed as he was, pulling the lion in two as one might do to a young goat, he put him to death; (but he said nothing to his father and mother of what he had done.)
Judges 15:8And he made an attack on them, driving them in uncontrolled flight, and causing great destruction; then he went away to his safe place in the crack of the rock at Etam.
Judges 16:30And Samson said, Let death overtake me with the Philistines. And he put out all his strength, and the house came down on the chiefs and on all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he sent to destruction by his death were more than all those on whom he had sent destruction in his life.
1 Chronicles 12:35And of the Danites, twenty-eight thousand, six hundred, expert in ordering the fight.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 33:19-22
18 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents. 19 They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand. 20 And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head. 21 And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he… Read the whole commentary →