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34 As for the tribe of Dan, the Amorites forced them back into the hill country and would not let them come down into the plains.

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47 But the tribe of Dan had trouble taking possession of their land,[a] so they attacked the town of Laish.[b] They captured it, slaughtered its people, and settled there. They renamed the town Dan after their ancestor.

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Footnotes

  1. 19:47a Or had trouble holding on to their land.
  2. 19:47b Hebrew Leshem, a variant spelling of Laish.

Idolatry in the Tribe of Dan

18 Now in those days Israel had no king. And the tribe of Dan was trying to find a place where they could settle, for they had not yet moved into the land assigned to them when the land was divided among the tribes of Israel.

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