Joshua 15 states that it was allotted to the tribe of Judah, but chapter 19 also states that it was allotted to the tribe of Dan.
Joshua 15:33Zanoah, En Gannim, Tappuah, Enam,
Joshua 19:48So they finished distributing the land for inheritance by its borders. The children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them.
Judges 13:2Yahweh’s angel appeared to the woman, and said to her, “See now, you are barren and childless; but you shall conceive and bear a son.
Judges 13:24Yahweh’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
Judges 13:25Yahweh’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
Judges 16:31Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down and took him, and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.
이후 단 지파는 그 지역에서 거주하길 싫어하여 이동해서 북쪽으로 올라갔다.
Judges 18:2When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; so they went over there and said to him, “Who brought you here? What do you do in this place? What do you have here?”
Judges 18:8They said, “Arise, and let’s go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. Do you stand still? Don’t be slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land.
Judges 18:11They went up and encamped in Kiriath Jearim in Judah. Therefore they call that place Mahaneh Dan to this day. Behold, it is behind Kiriath Jearim.
르호보암 왕은 이 도시에 성읍을 쌓았다.
2 Chronicles 11:5He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,
2 Chronicles 11:10He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of food, oil and wine.
Nehemiah 11:25in Jeshua, in Moladah, Beth Pelet,Nehemiah 11:26in Hazar Shual, in Beersheba and its towns,Nehemiah 11:27in Ziklag, in Meconah and in its towns,Nehemiah 11:28in En Rimmon, in Zorah, in Jarmuth,Nehemiah 11:29Zanoah, Adullam, and their villages, Lachish and its fields, and Azekah and its towns. So they encamped from Beersheba to the valley of Hinnom.