¹ In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day [their] inheritance had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel.

⁶ In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

¹ It happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.

²⁵ In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

⁴⁰ The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.

⁴¹ The border of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Irshemesh,

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 Me-jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border over against Joppa.

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.

⁴⁸ This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.

³⁴ The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill-country; for they would not allow them to come down to the valley;