DAN

Brutal Entry into the Promised Land

The Promised Land was just that: a promise, not a reality. The Philistines already lived there, and were more than ready to fight.  Read more...

• The Promised Land: who got what
• Who were the Philistines?
• Dan's Mudbrick Walls and Gateway
• Ancient Pottery and the invention of Taxation..

Dan's 'No Show' for Deborah

Before long the people of Dan began to copy the sophisticated coastal cities, something the Bible writers did not like at all.  Read more...

• Trade = Money = Success in the ancient world
• Deborah and Barak defeat iron-wheeled chariots

Pagan Shrine - the Golden Calf

The king's plan was to wean his subjects away from the glamor of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, and offer an alternative - the Golden Calf.  Read more...

• Ancient Pagan Altars
• Gods and goddesses, the Golden Calf, bestiality
• Baal, Asherah, Mot and Anat - the Canaanite gods
• The King-Judge: Ancient Law and Death Penalty

The Stele of Dan: Break the Enemy

Before the world of newspapers and mass media, this was how you let everyone know how lucky they were to have you as their king.  Read more...

• The Stele of Dan - what it said
• The Entrance Gate - what happened there?
• Tiglath Pileser III

Dan Bible Study Guide

Dan Resources

'So the king held consultations, and made two golden calves, and he said to them "It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold your gods." He set one in Bethel and the other he put in Dan.    Read more....

Dan - Photo Gallery

• Photographs of the city and surrounding area

Maps of ancient Dan

• Maps of the city and archaeological excavations