Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'dan' occurs 74 times in the standard works.

27 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'dan' in the standard works and contain 36.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 11 minutes to read the entire list.

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Judg. 18:25-30 (6 in 6 verses)

 18:25 And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.

 18:26 And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.

 18:27 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.

 18:28 And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by Beth-rehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein.

 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.

 18:30 And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.




Josh. 19:47-48 (5 in 2 verses)

Num. 2:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 26:42 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 33:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 49:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 1:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 18:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 12:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 48:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 74 440 514
Gen. 6 26 32
Ex. 4 5 9
Lev. 1 1 2
Num. 12 27 39
Deut. 4 28 32
Josh. 8 71 79
Judg. 15 19 34
1 Sam. 1 8 9
2 Sam. 5 19 24
1 Kgs. 4 10 14
2 Kgs. 1 15 16
1 Chr. 3 31 34
2 Chr. 3 22 25
Ezra 0 2 2
Neh. 0 3 3
Esth. 0 1 1
Job 0 7 7
Ps. 0 14 14
Eccl. 0 4 4
Song. 0 1 1
Isa. 0 15 15
Jer. 2 21 23
Lam. 0 1 1
Ezek. 4 10 14
Dan. 0 76 76
Amos 1 0 1
Zeph. 0 1 1
Zech. 0 2 2
NT 0 67 67
BM 0 82 82
DC 0 32 32
PGP 0 8 8
TOTAL 74 629 703

Judg. 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:

Judg. 3:28
And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the Lord hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.

Judg. 5:17
Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.

Judg. 7:24
And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan.

Judg. 7:25
And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.

Judg. 8:4
And Gideon came to Jordan, and passed over, he, and the three hundred men that were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.

Judg. 10:8
And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

Judg. 10:9
Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.

Judg. 11:13
And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably.

Judg. 11:22
And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.

Judg. 11:34
And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.

Judg. 12:5
And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;

Judg. 12:6
Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.

Judg. 13:2
And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.

Judg. 13:25
And the Spirit of the Lord began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.

Judg. 18:1
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 unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.

Judg. 18:2
And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.

Judg. 18:11
And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of war.

Judg. 18:12
And they went up, and pitched in Kirjath-jearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahaneh-dan unto this day: behold, it is behind Kirjath-jearim.

Judg. 18:16
And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, which were of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate.

Judg. 18:22
And when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that were in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.

Judg. 18:23
And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?

Judg. 18:25
And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.

Judg. 18:26
And the children of Dan went their way: and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back unto his house.

Judg. 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.

Judg. 18:30
And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.

Judg. 20:1
Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the Lord in Mizpeh.

Judg. 21:21
And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

Judg. 21:23
And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.