Dan ben Jacob

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GreatGrandson of Patriarch Abraham
One of the Twelve Tribes of Israel

Biography

Dan - Judge. Son of Bilhah, Rachel’s maid, and brother to Naphtali. After the settlement in Land of Canaan, the district assigned to the tribe of Dan was small in area but had an admirable situation, adjoining Ephraim, Benjamin, and Judah, parts of it being extremely fertile (Josh. 19:40–48). There was a good deal of difficulty in holding it against the Amorites (Judg. 1:34) and against the Philistines (Judg. 13:2, 25; 18:1). Consequently the Danites made for themselves a settlement in the north of Palestine (Judg. 18), around Laish, to which city they gave the name of Dan. This town is well known as the northern limit of Palestine, which extended “from Dan even to Beer-sheba.” It was chosen by Jeroboam as one of the places in which to establish the calf worship for the northern tribes (1 Kgs. 12:29; 2 Kgs. 10:29). The city was laid waste by Benhadad (1 Kgs. 15:20; 2 Chr. 16:4); and Jewish tradition records that the calf was carried off to Assyria by Tiglath-pileser (2 Kgs. 15:29). The reason for the omission of the tribe of Dan in John’s list in Rev. 7:5–7 is not known. Its character is sketched in the blessings of Jacob and Moses (Gen. 49:16–18; Deut. 33:22).

Genesis Narrative

23 And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
24 And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.
25 These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.
Genesis 46:23-25 - KJV translation

Children

Offspring of Dan and unknown parent
Name	Birth	Death	Joined with
Hushim ben Dan

Siblings

Offspring of Jacob ben Isaac and Leah, daughter of Laban
Name	Birth	Death	Joined with
Reuben ben Jacob	9999 Land of Canaan	9999 Land of Canaan	Eliuram, daughter of Ewi the Canaanite
Simeon ben Jacob	9999 Land of Canaan	9999 Land of Canaan	Bonah of Shechem
Levi ben Jacob	9999 Land of Canaan	9999 Land of Canaan	Milkah, daughter of Aram.
Judah ben Jacob	9999 Land of Canaan	9999 Land of Canaan	Daughter of Shau Tamar
Issachar ben Jacob	9999 Land of Canaan	9999 Land of Canaan	Aridah bat Jobab
Zebulun ben Jacob	9999 Land of Canaan	9999 Land of Canaan
Dinah, daughter of Jacob	9999 Land of Canaan	9999 Land of Canaan

Offspring of Jacob ben Isaac and Rachel, daughter of Laban
Name	Birth	Death	Joined with
Dan ben Jacob	9999 Land of Canaan	9999 Land of Canaan
Naphtali ben Jacob	9999 Land of Canaan	9999 Land of Canaan

Offspring of Jacob ben Isaac and Bilhah (?-?)
Name	Birth	Death	Joined with
Gad ben Jacob	9999 Land of Canaan	9999 Land of Canaan	Uzith bat Amuram
Asher ben Jacob	9999 Land of Canaan	9999 Land of Canaan	Hadurah

Offspring of Jacob ben Isaac and Zilpah (?-?)
Name	Birth	Death	Joined with
Joseph ben Jacob	9999 Land of Canaan	9999 Egypt	Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah
Benjamin ben Jacob	9999 Land of Canaan	9999 Land of Canaan

References

Benjamin - biblical figure disambiguation
Book of Genesis 11-25
Abraham's Family Tree - ReligionWikia
Dan - LDS Bible Dictionary
Dan - Wikipedia
Abraham - Family tree on JewAge (another Semantic MediaWiki site)

Footnotes (including sources)

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