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NASB | Revelation 7:5 from the tribe of Judah, twelve thousand were sealed, from the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand, from the tribe of Gad twelve thousand, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Revelation 7:5 Twelve thousand were sealed from the tribe of Judah, twelve thousand from the tribe of Reuben, twelve thousand from the tribe of Gad, |
Bible Question: The tribe of Dan is not mentioned in this verse. What happened to them? And in what book did they exit out of the chosen tribes? Thanks! |
Bible Answer: First post of two. In Genesis 49 Jacob gathered his sons to tell them what would befall them in the last days. Concerning Dan, Jacob said "Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel, Dan shall be a serpent by the way, a viper by the path, that bites the horse's heels so that its rider shall fall backward. I have waited for your salvation, O Lord!" (vs. 16-18) It was also said in the surrounding passages in Genesis that Jacob pronounced national prestige on Joseph's son Ephraim (49:19-22; 49:22-26; 1Chron. 5:1-2). There is no reason given why Jacob gave the eldest son's (Manesseh's) birthright to the younger (Ephraim), but Ephraim is represented in Revelation as the tribe of Joseph, whereas Manesseh (as eldest son) is listed as a separate tribe, replacing the tribe of Dan. (See Numbers 1:32-35) The Danites broke away from the tribe of Judah in the last chapters of the book of Judges. In 1Chronicles 1-8, the tribes of Israel are listed -- all but the tribe of Dan. The date for writing the first 8 chapters of the Chronicles has been placed at 1056 B.C. By then Dan had become a lost tribe (of Israel), although there is some mention of Dan after that. On a map of ancient Israel, the territory of Dan appears like a wing attached to the shoulder of the territory of Judah. Among the possible interpretations of Daniel's vision [Dan. 7:4], we should consider the story of Dan leaving its original territory and moving north into Lebanon. When Moses gave his prophecies of the 12 tribes, he said that Benjamin would "dwell between the shoulders of Judah" (Deut.33:12), and that Dan, "as a lion's whelp, would leap from Bashan" (Deut. 33:22). Bashan was located in ancient Lebanon. Moses prediction came to pass when the tribe of Dan was deprived of its territory adjacent to Judah, moved north to Lebanon, and established its territory in Bashan (Judges 18). From there the Danites made a symbolic leap into obscurity. Also when they migrated to southern Lebanon, they captured the city of Laish and changed it's name to Dan (Jud. 18:27-31). The ancient name "Laish" means "a lion", which fulfills the prophecy of Moses in Deut. 33:22 when he said: "Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan." The city of the lion (Laish) was located in the ancient province of Bashan, in the territory of Lebanon. According to that same chapter, the Danites established an idolatrous religion -- the worship of the sun and moon, with the summation given in Judges 29:30. According to the story, the tribe of Dan moved into Lebanon and lived there for at least the next 600 years. In the year 721 B.C. the Assyrians took the northern ten tribes captive. Though there is no historical documents to prove that the tribe moved westward into Europe, there are some interesting possibilities. According to the "World Book Encyclopedia", the Celts, in 400 B.C. divided Ireland into small kingdoms called tuatha. Celtic mythology claims that the most important race was the "Tuatha de Danann, or People of the Goddess Danu". There is also a legend written about the son of Belus, king of the Spartans -- in which is given the story of one named "Danaus", who arrived in Greece with his daughters by ship. According to the legend, his daughters called themselves Danades. They introduced the cult of the mother goddess, which became the religion of the Arcadians and developed over the years into the worship of Diana. (Diana may even be another form of "Dan".) The Spartans so loved their king that they called themselves Danaans -- long before they adopted the name of Spartans. Also in the legend is a record of the arrival of "colonists from Palestine", and again -- the expedition was headed by a man named Danaus. In the apocryphal book of 1Maccabees there is an account about the Spartans of southern Greece -- claiming that they were related to the Jewish people and were, in fact, of the stock of Abraham. A letter from the king of the Spartans to the Jewish high priest in Jerusalem: "It has been discovered in a document concerning the Spartans and Jews that they are brothers, and are of the race of Abraham" (1Macabees 12:21). Continued in another post. |
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