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46 Me-jarkon, Rakkon, and the territory across from Joppa.

47 But the tribe of Dan had trouble taking possession of their land,[a] so they attacked the town of Laish.[b] They captured it, slaughtered its people, and settled there. They renamed the town Dan after their ancestor.

48 The homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Dan included these towns and their surrounding villages.

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Footnotes

  1. 19:47a Or had trouble holding on to their land.
  2. 19:47b Hebrew Leshem, a variant spelling of Laish.

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