Bible Verses About The Tribe Of Dan

The tenth day the princes of the sons of Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai,

Offered a silver dish weighing a hundred and thirty sicles, a silver bowl of seventy sicles, according to the weight of the sanctuary, both full of flour tempered with oil for a sacrifice:

A little mortar of gold weighing ten sicles full of incense:

An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:

And a buck goat for sin:

And for sacrifices of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five buck goats, five lambs of a year old. This was the offering of Ahiezer the son of Ammisaddai.

The seventh lot came out to the tribe of the children of Dan by their families

And the border of their possession was Saraa and Esthaol, and Hirsemes, that is, the city of the sun,

Selebin and Aialon and Jethela,

Elon and Themna and Acron,

Elthece, Gebbethon and Balaath,

And Juda and Bane and Barach and Gethremmon:

And Mejarcon and Arecon, with the border that looketh towards Joppe,

And they returned to their brethren in Saraa and Esthaol, who asked them what they had done: to whom they answered:

Arise, and let us go up to them: for we have seen the land which is exceeding rich and fruitful: neglect not, lose no time: let us go and possess it, there will be no difficulty.

We shall come to a people that is secure, into a spacious country, and the Lord will deliver the place to us, in which there is no want of any thing that groweth on the earth.

There went therefore of the kindred of Dan, to wit, from Saraa and Esthaol, six hundred men, furnished with arms for war.

And going up they lodged in Cariathiarim of Juda: which place from that time is called the camp of Dan, and is behind Cariathiarim.

From thence they passed into mount Ephraim. And when they were come to the house of Michas,

But they that were gone into the house of the young man, went about to take away the graven god, and the ephod, and the theraphim, and the molten god, and the priest stood before the door, the six hundred valiant men waiting not far off.

So they that were gone in took away the graven thing, the ephod, and the idols, and the molten god, And the priest said to them: What are you doing?

And they said to him: Hold thy peace, and put thy finger on thy mouth, and come with us, that we may have thee for a father, and a priest. Whether is better for thee, to be a priest in the house of one man, or in a tribe and family in Israel?

When he heard this, he agreed to their words, and took the ephod, and the idols, and the graven god, and departed with them.

And when they were going forward, and had put before them the children and the cattle, and all that was valuable,

And the six hundred men took the priest, and the things we spoke of before, and came to Lais, to a people that was quiet and secure, and smote them with the edge of the sword: and the city they burnt with fire,