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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 791 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DAN , a See also:

town of See also:ancient See also:Israel, near the See also:head-See also:waters of the See also:Jordan, inhabited before its See also:conquest by the Danites by a peaceful commercial See also:population who called their See also:city Laish or Leshem (Josh. xix. 47, Judg. xviii.). It appears to have been even at this See also:early See also:period a sacred city, the See also:shrine of See also:Micah being removed hither, and it was chosen by See also:Jeroboam as the site of one of his See also:calf-shrines. It makes the See also:north limit of See also:Palestine in the proverbial expression " from Dan to See also:Beersheba." The town was plundered by Benhadad of See also:Damascus, and appears from that See also:time to have gradually declined. Its site is sought in the See also:mound called Tell-el-Kadi, " the See also:hill of the See also:judge " (Dan=" judge " in See also:Hebrew), though weighty authorities incline to See also:place it 4 M. See also:east of this, at Banias, the old Caesarea See also:Philippi.

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