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.

⁶ In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did as seemed right to him.

¹ Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living in the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he got for himself a servant-wife from Beth-lehem-judah.

²⁵ In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did what seemed right to him.

⁴⁰ For the tribe of Dan by their families the seventh heritage came out;

⁴¹ And the limit of their heritage was Zorah and Eshtaol and Ir-shemesh

⁴² And Shaalabbin and Aijalon and Ithlah

⁴³ And Elon and Timnah and Ekron

⁴⁴ And Eltekeh and Gibbethon and Baalath

⁴⁵ And Jehud and Bene-berak and Gath-rimmon;

⁴⁶ And on the west was ... opposite Joppa.

⁴⁷ (But the limit of the children of Dan was not wide enough for them; so the children of Dan went up and made war on Leshem and took it, putting it to the sword without mercy, and they took it for their heritage and made a place for themselves there, giving it the name of Leshem-dan, after the name of their father, Dan.)

⁴⁸ This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Dan by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.

³⁴ And the children of Dan were forced into the hill-country by the Amorites, who would not let them come down into the valley;