Deuteronomy 33:22
And of Dan he said: Dan [is] a lion’s whelp; He leaps from Bashan.
Literal Standard Version
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 judges his people, || As one of the tribes of Israel;
Judges 13:2And there is a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danite, and his name [is] Manoah, his wife [is] barren, and has not borne;
Judges 14:6and the Spirit of YHWH prospers over him, and he tears it as the tearing of a kid, and there is nothing in his hand, and he has not declared to his father and to his mother that which he has done.
Judges 15:8And he strikes them hip and thigh [with] a great striking, and goes down and dwells in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
Judges 16:30and Samson says, “Let me die with the Philistines,” and he inclines himself powerfully, and the house falls on the princes, and on all the people who [are] in it, and the dead whom he has put to death in his death are more than those whom he put to death in his life.
1 Chronicles 12:35And of the Danite, arranging battle, [are] twenty-eight thousand and six hundred.
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 →