¹⁶ Dan will be the judge of his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

⁶ Then Rachel said, God has been my judge, and has given ear to my voice, and has given me a son; so he was named Dan.

²² And of Dan he said, Dan is a young lion, springing out from Bashan.

²⁵ And the flag of the children of Dan, whose tents were moved last of all, went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai.

² Now there was a certain man of Zorah of the family of the Danites, and his name was Manoah; and his wife had never given birth to a child.

²⁴ So the woman gave birth to a son, and gave him the name Samson; and he became a man and the blessing of the Lord was on him.

²⁵ And the spirit of the Lord first came on him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

²⁰ And he was judge of Israel in the days of the Philistines for twenty years.

¹ In those days there was no king in Israel, and in those days the Danites were looking for a heritage for themselves, to be their living-place; for up to that time no distribution of land had been made to them among the tribes of Israel.

² So the children of Dan sent five men from among their number, strong men, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to take a look at the land and make a search through it; and they said to them, Go and make a search through the land; and they came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, where they made a stop for the night.

²⁶ Then the children of Dan went on their way; and when Micah saw that they were stronger than he, he went back to his house.

²⁷ And they took that which Micah had made, and his priest, and came to Laish, to a people living quietly and without thought of danger, and they put them to the sword without mercy, burning down their town.