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Dan shall be like a lion which leaps forth from his covert in Bashan. Compare (Song of Solomon 4:8).

Dan is a lion’s whelp. —Jacob compared him to a serpent and an adder. The lion of the tribe of Dan is not like the lion o…

And of Gad, he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad. God knows how to enlarge his people, give them more grace, more gifts, more opportu…

And of Dan he said. He foretells that the tribe of Dan, like that of Gad, should be warlike, not so much from voluntary disposition as fro…

And of Dan he said
Of the tribe of Dan, as the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem:
Dan [is] a lion…

The order in which the tribes are blessed here is not the same as is observed elsewhere. The blessing of Judah may refer to the whole tribe in gene…
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Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes