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Our chapter continues with the allotment of areas in the Promised Land to the remaining Israelite tribes. The last to receive its allotment is the tribe of Dan (Joshua 19:40-48). The original allotment given to Dan was apparently an enclave on the central coast of Canaan. But then our text adds a corrective historical note: \u201cThe territory of the Danites slipped from their grasp. So, the Danites migrated and made war on Leshem. They captured it and put it to the sword; they took possession of it and settled in it. And they changed the name of Leshem to Dan, after their ancestor Dan\u201d (verse 47). That the Danites lost control of their initial inheritance to the Amorites is related later, in the Book of Judges (1:34-35). And how the Danites relocated by conquering the Canaanite town of Leshem, is related in detail even later (see Judges, Chapter 18), where the Canaanite name of this town is given as Laish. The Israelite city of Dan was located on the northeastern side of the territory of Naphtali, in what is today referred to as the Galilee Panhandle (or \u201cFinger of the Galilee\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n

The subsequent importance of Dan is demonstrated by the phrase \u201cfrom Dan to Beersheva\u201d employed nine times in the Bible to indicate the north-south borders of \u201call the Israelites\u201d (see for example, Judges 20:1). The town of Dan joined with the other northern Israelite tribes as part of the United Monarchy under the first two kings of Israel, Saul and David. But, on the accession of Rehoboam, David’s grandson, in about 930 BCE, in what became the Southern Kingdom of Judah, Dan joined with the northern tribes in what became the Northern Kingdom of Israel. When Jeroboam became the first king of this separate kingdom, he \u201cmade two calves of gold, and said to the people, \u2018It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Here are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt!\u2019 And he set up one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. Now this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan\u201d (I Kings 12:28-30).<\/span><\/p>\n

In our day, Tel Dan<\/a> has become one of the most important archaeological sites in Israel<\/span>. Among the most important discoveries there are: the only surviving monumental temple complex from the Northern Kingdom of Israel, a Hellenistic inscription from the later phase of this cultic complex with a text in Greek and Aramaic, which includes the words: \u201cTo the god who is in Dan\u201d, and a 4000 year-old Canaanite mud-brick gate that preserves the earliest intact archway in the world. Most importantly, at the site of the ancient city of Dan was found the much discussed ninth century BCE \u201cKing David Stele\u201d, which preserves the oldest textual reference to the historical King David! The Tel Dan Nature Reserve — including ancient Dan — is open to visitors.<\/span><\/p>\n

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