the Israelites descended from
Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai),
and Jacob and Bilhah's firstborn son Dan
And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her. And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her. And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son. And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.-Genesis 30:5-6
And the sons of Dan; Hushim.-Genesis 46:23
These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families. All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred.-Numbers 26:42-43
Reference Information
Dan = diyn/din = judge
have children = weibbaneh/banah = be built up, to build
Hushim = husim = Chuwshiym/chuwsh = hush = hasters, hastily, quickly
Shuham = lesuham = Shuwcham/shuwach/shuach/shuah = humbly, depression, to be low
Reference Scriptures
And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.-Genesis 49:1...Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the hose heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.-Genesis 49:16-17
And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.-Deuteronomy 33:1...And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.-Deuteronomy 33:22
And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born into Israel: howebeit the name of the city was Laish at the first. 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.-Judges 18:29-30
These are the son of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, Dan, Joseph, and Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.-1 Chronicles 2:1-2
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;-Matthew 1:1-2...And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.-Matthew 1:16
And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,-Luke 3:23...Which was the son of Jacob, which was the son of Isaac, which was the son of Abraham, which was the son of Thara, which was the son of Nachor,-Luke 3:34...Which was the son of Enos, which was she son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.-Luke 3:38
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