Dan - Delaware

First Colonies Equated

DAN - Delaware

Coat of arms: ship, soldier, farmer, wheat, corn, bull,

"Why did Dan dwell in ships?" (Judges 5:15).
Slogan: Liberty and Independence.

wildlife symbol grey fox - Cf. Samson from Dan who captured 300 foxes, tied their tails together in pairs, placing a lighten torch between them and letting them go against the Philistine harvest (Judges 15:1-5).

Judges (NKJV) 15:
4 THEN SAMSON WENT AND CAUGHT THREE HUNDRED FOXES; AND HE TOOK TORCHES, TURNED THE FOXES TAIL TO TAIL, AND PUT A TORCH BETWEEN EACH PAIR OF TAILS. 5 WHEN HE HAD SET THE TORCHES ON FIRE, HE LET THE FOXES GO INTO THE STANDING GRAIN OF THE PHILISTINES, AND BURNED UP BOTH THE SHOCKS AND THE STANDING GRAIN, AS WELL AS THE VINEYARDS AND OLIVE GROVES.

Population      1,003,384, ca. 60% white plus ca. 10 % Hispanic.

Delaware was founded in 1704 when Dutch, Swedes, and Finns in Pennsylvania became dissatisfied with their fellow Quakers.

In Europe we identify Dan with Ireland and Denmark. Danes were also to be found among the populations of the Netherlands and Sweden.

Delaware we equate with the Israelite Tribe of Dan. The name "DAN" in Hebrew connotes "Judgement." The Talmud (Pesachim 4;a) describes  a certain person who was always wanting to go to take others to court over some thing or other. He was descended from Dan and through his penchant for litigation he gave expression to his anccestry. Delaware has about a million inhabitants. Only 70% of them are White American. A good portion of the income of Delaware may be traced in some way or other to a preoccupation with legal matters! Delaware allows corporations from other states to register with it. 60% of the companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange are incorporated in Delaware. This provides an income to numerous lawyers, and legal courts, and everything about them, secretaries, assistants, clerks, computer people, maintenance, transport, services, etc. The legal infrastructure and its offshoots also facilitate the functioning of government agencies, insurance companies, financial services, and much else. The modest community taxes paid by all these keeps the State going. In some way or other a good portion of the Income of Delaware may be ultimately traced to courts, litigation, and judgmental processes. This is an aspect of Dan.

The State of Delaware is named after a person of that name BUT his name probably originally meant "Man of War," or "Man of the Spear,"and this is an apt description of Dan, The Tribe of Dan were renowned as warriors. Delaware considers itself the "First State" where as Dan was the last of the Tribes in their order of marching but FIRST when approached from the North Side.

Biblical Names:
Rehoboth Beach - somewhere in Northern Israel BUT there was a palce tot he noprth of similar anme close to, or associated with, the Dananu.
Bethany Beach (Bethany probably refers to Bethel).
Bethel  - Southern Ephraim, Benjamin.

According to the 2010 United States census, the racial composition of the state was 68.9% White American (65.3% Non-Hispanic White, 3.6% White Hispanic), 21.4% Black or African American, 0.5% American Indian and Alaska Native, 3.2% Asian American,

The Irish, with 16%, seem to be the largest white contingent. We identify Ireland with Dan and Asher. After those of irish acnestry come the Germans with 13%, and the English with 9.6%.followed by the italians with almost the same 9.6%.

Other US States associated with Dan:inlcude Vermont, Wisconsin.

The Location of Delaware vis-a-vis the other States and their Tribal identities is reminiscent of Biblical asssociations:

To the northwest  of Delaware is New Jersey - Dan adjoined Benjamin. Maryland (Levi) is to the west.  Dan had an association with Levi. Virginia also is to the west and Ephraim neighbored the southern portion of Dan..

The Tribe of Dan at one stage set up an independendent kingdom in the north ruled over by a Priestly dynasty descended from Jonathan a descendant of Moses  from the Tribe of Levi.

See: 

Dan and the Serpent Way. 
Dan in Northern Israel, Syria, Greece, and Elsewhere.
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/tribes/dan/dan-and-the-serpent-way.html

Judges (NKJV) 18:
1 IN THOSE DAYS THERE WAS NO KING IN ISRAEL. AND IN THOSE DAYS THE TRIBE OF THE DANITES WAS SEEKING AN INHERITANCE FOR ITSELF TO DWELL IN; FOR UNTIL THAT DAY THEIR INHERITANCE AMONG THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL HAD NOT FALLEN TO THEM. 2 SO THE CHILDREN OF DAN SENT FIVE MEN OF THEIR FAMILY FROM THEIR TERRITORY, MEN OF VALOR FROM ZORAH AND ESHTAOL, TO SPY OUT THE LAND AND SEARCH IT. THEY SAID TO THEM, 'GO, SEARCH THE LAND.' SO THEY WENT TO THE MOUNTAINS OF EPHRAIM, TO THE HOUSE OF MICAH, AND LODGED THERE. 3 WHILE THEY WERE AT THE HOUSE OF MICAH, THEY RECOGNIZED THE VOICE OF THE YOUNG LEVITE. THEY TURNED ASIDE AND SAID TO HIM, 'WHO BROUGHT YOU HERE? WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THIS PLACE? WHAT DO YOU HAVE HERE?'

4 HE SAID TO THEM, 'THUS AND SO MICAH DID FOR ME. HE HAS HIRED ME, AND I HAVE BECOME HIS PRIEST.'

5 SO THEY SAID TO HIM, 'PLEASE INQUIRE OF GOD, THAT WE MAY KNOW WHETHER THE JOURNEY ON WHICH WE GO WILL BE PROSPEROUS.'

6 AND THE PRIEST SAID TO THEM, 'GO IN PEACE. [A]THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD BE WITH YOU ON YOUR WAY.'

7 SO THE FIVE MEN DEPARTED AND WENT TO LAISH. THEY SAW THE PEOPLE WHO WERE THERE, HOW THEY DWELT SAFELY, IN THE MANNER OF THE SIDONIANS, QUIET AND SECURE. THERE WERE NO RULERS IN THE LAND WHO MIGHT PUT THEM TO SHAME FOR ANYTHING. THEY WERE FAR FROM THE SIDONIANS, AND THEY HAD NO TIES [B]WITH ANYONE.

8 THEN THE SPIES CAME BACK TO THEIR BRETHREN AT ZORAH AND ESHTAOL, AND THEIR BRETHREN SAID TO THEM, 'WHAT IS YOUR REPORT?'

9 SO THEY SAID, 'ARISE, LET US GO UP AGAINST THEM. FOR WE HAVE SEEN THE LAND, AND INDEED IT IS VERY GOOD. WOULD YOU DO NOTHING? DO NOT HESITATE TO GO, AND ENTER TO POSSESS THE LAND. 10 WHEN YOU GO, YOU WILL COME TO A SECURE PEOPLE AND A LARGE LAND. FOR GOD HAS GIVEN IT INTO YOUR HANDS, A PLACE WHERE THERE IS NO LACK OF ANYTHING THAT IS ON THE EARTH.'

11 AND SIX HUNDRED MEN OF THE FAMILY OF THE  DANITES WENT FROM THERE, FROM ZORAH AND ESHTAOL, ARMED WITH WEAPONS OF WAR. 12 THEN THEY WENT UP AND ENCAMPED IN KIRJATH JEARIM IN JUDAH. (THEREFORE THEY CALL THAT PLACE MAHANEH DAN TO THIS DAY. THERE IT IS, WEST OF KIRJATH JEARIM.) 13 AND THEY PASSED FROM THERE TO THE MOUNTAINS OF EPHRAIM, AND CAME TO THE HOUSE OF MICAH.

14 THEN THE FIVE MEN WHO HAD GONE TO SPY OUT THE COUNTRY OF LAISH ANSWERED AND SAID TO THEIR BRETHREN, 'DO YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE IN THESE HOUSES AN EPHOD, HOUSEHOLD IDOLS, A CARVED IMAGE, AND A MOLDED IMAGE? NOW THEREFORE, CONSIDER WHAT YOU SHOULD DO.' 15 SO THEY TURNED ASIDE THERE, AND CAME TO THE HOUSE OF THE YOUNG LEVITE MAN, TO THE HOUSE OF MICAH, AND GREETED HIM. 16 THE SIX HUNDRED MEN ARMED WITH THEIR WEAPONS OF WAR, WHO WERE OF THE CHILDREN OF DAN, STOOD BY THE ENTRANCE OF THE GATE. 17 THEN THE FIVE MEN WHO HAD GONE TO SPY OUT THE LAND WENT UP. ENTERING THERE, THEY TOOK THE CARVED IMAGE, THE EPHOD, THE HOUSEHOLD IDOLS, AND THE MOLDED IMAGE. THE PRIEST STOOD AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE GATE WITH THE SIX HUNDRED MEN WHO WERE ARMED WITH WEAPONS OF WAR.

18 WHEN THESE WENT INTO MICAH'S HOUSE AND TOOK THE CARVED IMAGE, THE EPHOD, THE HOUSEHOLD IDOLS, AND THE MOLDED IMAGE, THE PRIEST SAID TO THEM, 'WHAT ARE YOU DOING?'

19 AND THEY SAID TO HIM, 'BE QUIET, PUT YOUR HAND OVER YOUR MOUTH, AND COME WITH US; BE A FATHER AND A PRIEST TO US. IS IT BETTER FOR YOU TO BE A PRIEST TO THE HOUSEHOLD OF ONE MAN, OR THAT YOU BE A PRIEST TO A TRIBE AND A FAMILY IN ISRAEL?' 20 SO THE PRIEST'S HEART WAS GLAD; AND HE TOOK THE EPHOD, THE HOUSEHOLD IDOLS, AND THE CARVED IMAGE, AND TOOK HIS PLACE AMONG THE PEOPLE.

21 THEN THEY TURNED AND DEPARTED, AND PUT THE LITTLE ONES, THE LIVESTOCK, AND THE GOODS IN FRONT OF THEM. 22 WHEN THEY WERE A GOOD WAY FROM THE HOUSE OF MICAH, THE MEN WHO WERE IN THE HOUSES NEAR MICAH'S HOUSE GATHERED TOGETHER AND OVERTOOK THE CHILDREN OF DAN. 23 AND THEY CALLED OUT TO THE CHILDREN OF DAN. SO THEY TURNED AROUND AND SAID TO MICAH, 'WHAT AILS YOU, THAT YOU HAVE GATHERED SUCH A COMPANY?'

24 SO HE SAID, 'YOU HAVE TAKEN AWAY  MY GODS WHICH I MADE, AND THE PRIEST, AND YOU HAVE GONE AWAY. NOW WHAT MORE DO I HAVE? HOW CAN YOU SAY TO ME, 'WHAT AILS YOU?' '

25 AND THE CHILDREN OF DAN SAID TO HIM, 'DO NOT LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD AMONG US, LEST ANGRY MEN FALL UPON YOU, AND YOU LOSE YOUR LIFE, WITH THE LIVES OF YOUR HOUSEHOLD!' 26 THEN THE CHILDREN OF DAN WENT THEIR WAY. AND WHEN MICAH SAW THAT THEY WERE TOO STRONG FOR HIM, HE TURNED AND WENT BACK TO HIS HOUSE.

27 SO THEY TOOK THE THINGS MICAH HAD MADE, AND THE PRIEST WHO HAD BELONGED TO HIM, AND WENT TO LAISH, TO A PEOPLE QUIET AND SECURE; AND THEY STRUCK THEM WITH THE EDGE OF THE SWORD AND BURNED THE CITY WITH FIRE. 28 THERE WAS NO DELIVERER, BECAUSE IT WAS FAR FROM SIDON, AND THEY HAD NO TIES WITH ANYONE. IT WAS IN THE VALLEY THAT BELONGS TO BETH REHOB. SO THEY REBUILT THE CITY AND DWELT THERE. 29 AND THEY CALLED THE NAME OF THE CITY DAN, AFTER THE NAME OF DAN THEIR FATHER, WHO WAS BORN TO ISRAEL. HOWEVER, THE NAME OF THE CITY FORMERLY WAS LAISH.

30 THEN THE CHILDREN OF DAN SET UP FOR THEMSELVES THE CARVED IMAGE; AND JONATHAN THE SON OF GERSHOM, THE SON OF MANASSEH, AND HIS SONS WERE PRIESTS TO THE TRIBE OF DAN UNTIL THE DAY OF THE CAPTIVITY OF THE LAND. 31 SO THEY SET UP FOR THEMSELVES MICAH'S CARVED IMAGE WHICH HE MADE, ALL THE TIME THAT THE HOUSE OF GOD WAS IN SHILOH.