And Me-jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border before Japho.
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.
AI summary
Commenting on Joshua 19:40-48
And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them,.... Being a very numerous tribe, the cities allotted them were not sufficient for them; or rather, leaving out the supplement "too little", the words will run, it "went out from them"; they lost part of it, being driven out of the valley into the mountain by the Amorites, Jdg 1:34; which...
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