THE TRIBE OF DAN

                                                            THE TRIBE OF DAN

                                                            BIBLICAL HISTORY

The people of Dan were explorers and settled in new places. Centuries before the captivities they found colonies in Greece, which attracted immigrants from other tribes. The Bible speaks of Zebulun and Naphtali as being great warriors.  The blond Hellenes (early Greeks) were noted for strong, healthy bodies. It was only long afterward, when Greece brought home slaves and intermarried with them that the modern olive skinned, dark haired Greeks was developed.

However, even today you will see in Greece fair skin Greeks with blue and green eyes that is believed to be of the Dorian race (tribe of Dan).

There are four tribes in Greece : The Dorians, the Ionians, The Corinthians, The Cretans.

The question of the tribe of Dan in relation t the Last Days and the Antichrist is an interesting one. Dan is not included with the other tribes of Israel listed in Revelation 7. Idolatry was a big factor on their downfall. The Danites tended to think of themselves as being a people separate from the rest of Israel was their propensity to name places, rivers and towns after their father Dan. 

Judges 18:28-29 "And they built a city, and dwell therein. And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel..."

Going back to the Dorians---we know from scripture the answer.  They are the ancient early Greeks.

Over in Canaan---from around 1413 B.C. to about 1050 B.C. ---was the time of the judges. We are told of Dan's predicament in Judges 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." 

Further on in Judges 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 dwell therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father". Judges 18 tells us this about Dan in the land of Israel : "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. 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 Bethrehob. And they built a city, and dwelt therein. 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. 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." (What Micah had made were idols : the Danites showed quite willingness to embrace paganism.) In Deuteronomy 33:22 we have Moses saying : "And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp : he shall leap from Bashan." "Leshem" appears to be the same as "Laish". Part of the Danites living in the Basham area left for Greece, where their Danite brethren the Mycenean Greeks were living.

These Danites that left Bashan most likely were the Dorians that are spoken of as moving into the Greek peninsula from the north, in the wake of the decline of the Mycenaean cities. (Apparently the name "Dorian" comes from an area north of the collapsed Mycenaean empire called "Doris" : which means "woodland". More likely "Dorian" is related to the Gaelic word "Doran", means "exile" or "wanderer". Danites from the upper Levant (Bashan) had migrated to this mountainous area full of trees. These Dorians took over the city of Sparta and most of the Peloponnese (southern part of Greece) region.

As the Mycenaeans (who became the sea people) they settled along the western shores of the Black sea---later taking the name of the "Vanir" because they hooked up with a group of Gauls (Celts) calling themselves the "Veneti" (Tribewatch.com) : the same Vanir who, along with the Aesir (the Trojan refugees who settled along the northern shores of the Black Sea), emigrated to northern Europe in the centuries to come. These Vanir would become the Daner of Denmark : again the name of "Dan" mutating through "Danaan" and into "Denmark". And that's where the Danube river got its name : The Vanir (Danaans=Achaeans) named it after their father Dan, when they traveled up that river to reach northern Europe.

GOD BLESS

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