Deuteronomy 33:22
And of Dan he said, Dan is a lions whelp: he shall leape from Bashan.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 shall iudge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.
Judges 13:2Then there was a man in Zorah of the familie of the Danites, named Manoah, whose wife was baren, and bare not.
Judges 14:6And the Spirit of the Lord came vpon him, and he tare him, as one should haue rent a kid, and had nothing in his hand, neither told he his father nor his mother what he had done.
Judges 15:8So hee smote them hippe and thigh with a mightie plague: then hee went and dwelt in the top of the rocke Etam.
Judges 16:30Then Samson saide, Let me lose my life with the Philistims: and he bowed him with all his might, and the house fell vpon the princes, and vpon all the people that were therein. so the dead which he slewe at his death were more then they which he had slaine in his life.
1 Chronicles 12:35And of Dan expert in battell, eyght and twentie thousande, and sixe hundreth.
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 →