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DAN

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 791 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DAH-DEM
DAN , a town of
ancient
 
Israel
 , near the head-waters of the Jordan, inhabited before its conquest by the Danites by a peaceful commercial
population
  who called their city Laish or Leshem (Josh. xix. 47, Judg. xviii.). It appears to have been even at this early period a sacred city, the shrine of
Micah
  being removed hither, and it was chosen by Jeroboam as the site of one of his calf-shrines. It makes the
north
  limit of Palestine in the proverbial expression " from Dan to
Beersheba
 ." The town was plundered by Benhadad of Damascus, and appears from that time to have gradually declined. Its site is sought in the mound called Tell-el-Kadi, " the hill of the judge " (Dan=" judge " in Hebrew), though weighty authorities incline to
place
  it 4 M.
east
  of this, at Banias, the old Caesarea
Philippi
 . (See above.)


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