And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:

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 unto that day {all their} inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.

And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.

And they took {the things} which Micah had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people {that were} at quiet and secure: and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire.

Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that {were} therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and {there was} no magistrate in the land, that might put {them} to shame in {any} thing; and they {were} far from the Zidonians, and had no business with {any} man. {Laish: also called, Leshem} {magistrate: Heb. possessor, or, heir of restraints}

And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city {was} Laish at the first.

And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:

And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that {is} over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, {Pisgah: or, the hill}

And of Dan he said, Dan {is} a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.

Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtimhodshi; and they came to Danjaan, and about to Zidon, {land of Tahtimhodshi: or, nether land newly inhabited}