Deuteronomy 33:22
Of Dan he said,"Dan is a lion's cubthat leaps out of Bashan."
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion’s whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.
In Context
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Genesis 49:16"Dan will judge his people,as one of the tribes of Israel.
Judges 13:2There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and did not bear. .
Judges 14:6And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and he tore him as he would have torn a young goat. And he had nothing in his hand, but he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.
Judges 15:8He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
Judges 16:30Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were therein. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.
1 Chronicles 12:35Of the Danites who could set the battle in array, twenty-eight thousand 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 →