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Dan (Hebrew: דן), and older name Laish, is an ancient city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, described as the northernmost city of the Kingdom of Israel, [1] and belonging to the tribe of Dan, its namesake. It was later the site of a royal sanctuary built by Jeroboam. [2]
The Tribe of Dan (Hebrew: דָּן, "Judge") was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, according to the Torah.According to the Hebrew Bible, the tribe initially settled in the hill lands bordering Ephraim and Benjamin on the east and Judah and the Philistines on the south but migrated north due to pressure of their enemies, settling at Laish (later known as Dan), near Mount Hermon.
The city of Dan (not to be confused with the Tribe of Dan) is in the northern part of Naphtali's territory. Beersheba is in Simeon's territory. From Dan to Beersheba is a biblical phrase used nine times [1] in the Hebrew Bible to refer to the settled areas of the Tribes of Israel between Dan in the North and Beersheba in the South.
Gush Dan (Hebrew: גּוּשׁ דָּן, lit. ' Dan bloc ' ) or Tel Aviv metropolitan area is a conurbation in Israel , located along the country's Mediterranean coastline . There is no single formal definition of Gush Dan, though the term is in frequent use by both governmental bodies and the general public.
Eshtaol (Hebrew: אֶשְׁתָּאוֹל) is a moshav in central Israel, and a biblical location mentioned in the Books of Joshua and Judges and in the first Book of Chronicles. Located 6 km (4 mi) north of Beit Shemesh , [ 2 ] it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council .
Dan (Hebrew: דָּן) is a kibbutz in northern Israel. Located in the north of the Hula Valley , at the foot of Mount Hermon , it falls under the jurisdiction of Upper Galilee Regional Council . As of 2022 it had a population of 799.
Beersheba (/ b ɪər ˈ ʃ iː b ə / beer-SHEE-bə), officially Be'er-Sheva, [2] [a] is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel.Often referred to as the "Capital of the Negev", it is the centre of the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in Israel, the eighth-most populous Israeli city with a population of 214,162, [1] and the second-largest city in area (after Jerusalem ...
According to the Book of Genesis, Dan (Hebrew: דָּן, Dān, "judgment" or "he judged") [2] was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Bilhah [3] (Jacob's fifth son). His mother, Bilhah, was Rachel's handmaid, who becomes one of Jacob's concubines (Book of Genesis, Genesis 35:22). In the Biblical account, he is the founder of the Israelite ...