This document is about Dan (place name). For other homonyms, see the Dan document. The region of Dan is the northernmost tip of the land of Israel. From here came the expression "from Dan to Beersheba," meaning the entire land of Israel. ### Land of the Tribe of Dan The tribe of Dan occupied the region originally held by the Leshem people.
Joshua 19:47This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.
사사기에서는 라이스라고도 불리웠다.
Judges 18:29The children of Dan set up for themselves the engraved image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.
솔로몬 사후 남과 북으로 분단된 이스라엘 왕국은, 남 유다 왕국은 솔로몬의 아들 르호보암이, 북이스라엘 왕국은 여로보암 1세가 다스리게 되었다.
왕국은 남북으로 갈라졌으나, 성전은 여전히 예루살렘에 있었고, 이스라엘 민족은 누구나 다 명절때마다 성전을 방문하여 제사를 드리는 것이 율법이었다.
이에, 여로보암 1세는 자신들의 백성이 국경을 넘어 예루살렘으로 드나드는 것을 막아 자신의 정치권력을 안정화시키고자 하였다. 그래서 그는 금송아지 두 개를 만들어 하나는 나라의 북쪽 끝에 있는 단에 두고, 다른 하나를 벧엘에 두었다.
1 Kings 12:25Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to David’s house.1 Kings 12:26If this people goes up to offer sacrifices in Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam) king of Judah; and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”1 Kings 12:27So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”1 Kings 12:28He set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.1 Kings 12:29This thing became a sin; for the people went even as far as Dan to worship before the one there.1 Kings 12:30He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.1 Kings 12:31Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did so in Bethel), sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.1 Kings 12:32He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar, to burn incense.1 Kings 12:33He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar, to burn incense.