Dan

DAN, a town situated at the northern extremity of the land of Israel, in the Tribe of Naphtali. The scripture often uses this way 1 Sam. xxx. 2. 2 Sam. iii. 10. xvii. 11. xxiv. 2. & passim. Euseb. in Δαν & Βηθσαμας.of speaking, From Dan even unto Beersheba, to denote the two extremities of the land of promise. Dan lay northward, and Beersheba southward. The city of Dan was seated at the foot of Mount Libanus, upon the spring of Dan, or Jordan; and several Authors have been of opinion, that the river Jordan, Jordanes, took its name from the Hebrew, Jor, a spring, and Dan, which was a town situated near the source of it. See the article JORDAN. Dan lay four miles from Paneas, on the side of Tyre. Some have improperly confounded it with Paneas, because Hieronym. in Ezek. xlviii. Philostorg. hist. l. 7. c. 2. alii. 1 Kings xii. 29.Dan is near this city. Jeroboam the son of Nebat set up one of his golden calves in Dan, and the other at Bethel.

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