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.
Deuteronomy 34:1
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,
Joshua 19:47
And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.
Judges 18:29
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.
1 Samuel 3:20
And all Israel from Dan even to Beer–sheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the Lord.
2 Samuel 3:10
To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beer–sheba.
1 Kings 4:25
And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer–sheba, all the days of Solomon.
2 Kings 10:29
Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Beth–el, and that were in Dan.