And the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.
Dan brought up the rear in the wilderness, yet Providence set him last in Canaan, on a dangerous frontier against the Philistines. It was a post fit for his strength, and Samson proved it so. He won some cities by lot and others by his own valour and industry.
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Commenting on Joshua 19:40-48
And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol,.... The tribe of Dan is not described by places the boundaries of it, as other tribes, but by its cities, which were chiefly, at least several of them, taken out of the tribe of Judah, as the two first of these most manifestly were; See Gill on Jos 15:33, and Irshemesh signifies the city of...
OF DAN. (Jos 19:40-48) the seventh lot came out for the tribe . . . Dan--It lay on the west of Benjamin and consisted of portions surrendered by Judah and Ephraim. Its boundaries are not stated, as they were easily distinguishable from the relative position of Dan to the three adjoining tribes.
Commenting on Joshua 19:40-48