Biblical places
Dan (Tel Dan)
Israel's northernmost town, the reference point for the phrase 'from Dan to Beersheba.' Renamed from Laish after the tribe of Dan settled there, and famous as the site where Jeroboam set up a golden calf (Judges 18, 1 Kings 12).
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- Very High
- Tel Dan
- 33.2489, 35.6519
Wikidata and Wikipedia coordinates match exactly; there is no disagreement over the location.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
Genesis 14:14
And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
Exodus 1:4
Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
Leviticus 24:11
And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the LORD, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)
Numbers 1:12
Of Dan; Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
Deuteronomy 27:13
And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
Joshua 19:40
And the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.
Judges 1:34
And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:
1 Samuel 3:20
And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD.