And the sons of Dan: Hushim.
Parallel translations
- WEB The son of Dan: Hushim.
- KJV And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
- BSB The son of Dan: Hushim.
- NKJV The son of Dan was Hushim.
- NLT The son of Dan was Hushim.
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Quick answer
Dan's single listed son, Hushim, is named. He heads the tribe of Dan.
Overview
Dan was the firstborn of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid. Though only one son is named here, the tribe of Dan grew large, as the later census in Numbers shows. The record reminds us that God can multiply a great people even from small and obscure beginnings.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- 1 Chr 12:35Of the Danites who could set the battle in array, twenty-eight thousand six hundred.
- Gen 35:25The sons of Bilhah (Rachel’s servant): Dan and Naphtali.
- Num 26:42–43These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families.
- Gen 30:6Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore called she his name Dan.
- Gen 49:16–17“Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
- Num 10:25The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rear guard of all the camps, set forward according to their armies. Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai was over his army.
- 1 Chr 2:2Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.
- Num 1:38–39Of the children of Dan, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
- 1 Chr 7:12So were Shuppim, Huppim, the sons of Ir, Hushim, and the sons of Aher.
- Deut 33:22About Dan he said, “Dan is a lion’s cub that leaps out of Bashan.”
- Num 1:12Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.
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