²² Of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's cub, That leaps forth from Bashan.

²⁷ They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and secure, and struck them with the edge of the sword; and they burnt the city with fire.

⁴⁷ The border of the children of Dan went out beyond them; for the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and lived therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.

³⁵ Of the Danites who could set the battle in array, twenty-eight thousand six hundred.

³⁰ Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were therein. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.

¹⁵ He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put forth his hand, and took it, and struck a thousand men therewith.

⁸ He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

¹⁹ The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and struck thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave the changes [of clothing] to those who declared the riddle. His anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.

⁶ The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a kid; and he had nothing in his hand: but he didn't tell his father or his mother what he had done.

²⁴ The woman bore a son, and named him Samson: and the child grew, and Yahweh blessed him.

²⁵ The Spirit of Yahweh began to move him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

² There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and didn't bear.

¹⁶ "Dan will judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel.

¹⁷ Dan will be a serpent in the way, An adder in the path, That bites the horse's heels, So that his rider falls backward.