PART 1 - The Danites: From Jacob to the Sea Peoples | Biblical History

[00:00:00]It says here royal genealogies are the genealogical tables of emperors, kings and princes from Adam to these times in two parts. This is by James Anderson DD and this was published in 1732.

[00:00:18]So again we got Jacob's descendants right his 12 sons creating the 12 tribes of Israel.

[00:00:27]One of them again. So the fifth son right Dan born at Haron in 10 months after Judah aged at the descent 48 and 6 months had been married and had the one sonim.

[00:00:44]They're saying that Dan had only one son. We're going to see how it doesn't make sense later on cuz he multiplied a lot. Several sons as it says here several sons. They don't list them, but eventually they list one of his descendants, Amisha.

[00:01:02]It says Azer, the prince of Dan, at the erection of the tabernacle. All right, but there's a lot more historic Danites.

[00:01:10]We're going to get into it. I just wanted you guys to see the genealogy of the Danites, who they are, so you guys can understand where they're coming from, who their family is when they are dealing with other nations that are not from the same family, 1611 version of the King James Bible.

[00:01:31]But what I like about this Bible and why I use it, it has a genealogical chart. And I just wanted to show you that right here confirms what they were showing over there. It's showing you Jacob's descendants, right? He's Israel. So all these are Israelites. And it shows you his four wives. One of them being Bilha.

[00:01:54]And with Bilha, if you follow the line, you're going to see Dan and Nali.

[00:02:01]All right? Those are the two sons that Jacob had with Bilha. Bill. Belle.

[00:02:08]Bill. Belle. Who's Belle? Remember that.

[00:02:12]Belle. Billha is the mom, right? Belle, the mom of Dan. Billa. Belle. Billa.

[00:02:19]Belle. And Dan, as you guys can see, has the snake as his emblem.

[00:02:25]We're going to see how significant that is. So again, you got Bilha and Dan. You go down here and these are descendants of Dan on this side. And these are supposed to be descendants of Nefali, which is kind of weird because they're calling this a man of Tire and a woman of Dan who's supposed to be Hyram. Yeah. Kin Hyram's parents. Yes.

[00:02:50]His mom is a Danite woman of Dan with a man of Tire supposedly. And that's where Hyum is coming from. But this man of Tire in this Bible seems to be coming out of Napali.

[00:03:04]Who's the Phoenicians?

[00:03:06]How much did these Israelite nations mix with other nations that they excluded from our known history?

[00:03:17]So again, these are descendants supposedly of Dan on this side. One of them being Monoah and he is the father of Samson. Samson a strong guy, right? And he lost his strength when they cut his hair. He's a Danite. He was a judge. We're going to see Danites were judges. So this is important. Hyum eventually you're going to see help sudden construction has a lot of relation with Israelites and the temple of Solomon and also dealing with sea peoples like Danites.

[00:03:59]All right so real quick so let's learn a little bit more about the Danites now that we just had a little brief overview of their genealological background. It says here in Erdman's dictionary of the Bible by David no Freriedman, editor-inchief and the rest of Alen C. Meers and Astred Beck.

[00:04:22]And when you go look up Dan in this dictionary, it tells you the fifth son of Jacob and his first of two with Bilha, Rachel's maidervant. All right. So Bilha their mom was a maid servant of Rachel or a handmmaid as you will read the close relationship between Dan and his brother Nafali is also a matter of geographic proximity the tribes occupied adjacent areas of the camp during Exodus right and that's the biblical source and neighboring territories in the kingdom of Israel initially the Danites attempted to settle in the south in the vicinity of Sarah and es ta this attempt and failed in a region crowded with indigenous Amorites. All right, Canaanites, descendants of Ham, Amorites.

[00:05:14]All right, remember these are different nations. That's why we went over the tree. Immigrant Philistines and Israelite groups such as the Judahites and Emperorites. All right, from the tribes of Ephraime. As a result, the Danites migrated during the period of the judges to the extreme north. Five Danite spies set out consulting a Levite priest in Mount Ephraim along the way and discovered Lish, a city both rich in resources and vulnerable to attack.

[00:05:47]A war party of 600 warriors soon followed and took the city, which they renamed in honor of their tribal ancestor, the Danites, forced the Levite priests to accompanied them. Now listen to this. Listen to what the Danites did.

[00:06:01]He founded the sanctuary at Dan. The Danite territory was largely confined to this single urban center. All right. And we're going to read what he made the Levite priest do. Possibly some Danites remain in the south, the core of which Solomon's second administrative district may have preserved. Continuing the dictionary, it says in many aspects the Danites are unusual. They apparently did not have many clans.

[00:06:26]Only one is listed. and sometimes they are referred to as a clan rather than as a tribe. The Danites were the only tribe who failed to hold or receive a tribal allotment. They are criticizing the son of Deborah for failing to join the Israelite coalition against the Canaanites. Right? The Danites were like, "Nah, now you guys on your own."

[00:06:49]The best known Danite Samson was the most uncharacteristic of the judges. The tribal blessing Genesis 49:17 Dan shall be a snake by the roadside a viper along the path may reflect a reputation for violence. Nothing about the dan at conquest of laish bel such a reputation.

[00:07:11]Jacob's deathbed words about Dan Dan shall judge his people right he shall judge. She's the judge as one of the tribes of Israel have an enigmatic quality and have left some wondering whether the Danites like full tribal status at some point.

[00:07:30]Another question about Danites is the relationship to other ethnic groups with similar names migrating in the region near the end of the second millennium.

[00:07:41]All right, so basically this is going to get into what I'm going to get into with you guys. going to show you guys who the Danites became. Now, they're talking about their relationship to other ethnic groups. Huh?

[00:07:56]Says here, Greek records named the Dana Oi.

[00:08:00]Phoenician records the Denim and Egyptian the Dyen and Danuna.

[00:08:07]All may be linked. The evidence is inconclusive.

[00:08:11]All right, we're going to show the different sources and you guys decide, you know, but we know that historically the Danites were sea people. We're going to read about all this. We're going to learn this. And yes, all these nations are Danites. The Galileian tribes fell to the Tiglo Pilizer third Assyrian army in 732. And many Danites were among the exiles forced to resettle in Assyria. All right. Danites became exiles. The remaining northern tribes went into exile when Samaria fell a decade later.

[00:08:47]The Danites migrations probably ended in the district of Assyria. Probably. All right. So again, Danites in Assyria.

[00:08:58]Remember that. So Danites, a lot of Danites ended up in Assyria.

[00:09:03]Do you guys think they mixed with the Assyrians? They had any relationship with the Assyrians? The Dan were sea peoples. They probably had a lot of value in ancient Assyria.

[00:09:15]All right, real quick. We're going to read from the Sunderan Pictorial Bible Dictionary, general editor Merrill Cenny. All right, this is a 1963 version and we go all the way to Dan says here, tribe of Dan. The tribe to which Dan, the fifth son of Jacob, gave origin and the territory allotted it in Cananan.

[00:09:36]All right. In Cananan, one son is mentioned among those who migrated to Egypt. By the time of the Exodus, his offspring had increased to a total of 62,000 men. The tribe acted as rear guard during the Exodus. They were given a fertile area lying between Judah and the Mediterranean Sea. Occupied by the Philistines, right? Remember Hamites, Philistines whose lands extended from Egypt to the coast west of Shasham.

[00:10:07]Failure to conquer Felistia made the Danites move northward where by a bit of strategy they conquered Leashm and renamed it Dan.

[00:10:19]The heritage of Dan though small was productive and with the acquisition of extra lands provided for growth. Aholab and Samson were Danites. Jerobom Solomon's servant set up a golden calf and then Uhoh.

[00:10:35]That was an Israelite king who did that.

[00:10:38]Yeah, he set up a golden calf and then they started idol worshiping and put high places throughout Israel.

[00:10:46]Manahhem stayed Pool by bribery but eventually Pool returned overran Israel and took many Danites into captivity.

[00:10:58]Little is known of the tribe from that time right a lot of Danites were what?

[00:11:02]Taken into captivity but a lot of them also did not. They fled in ships. We're going to read. Okay. And when these people went into captivity, they went into the all these nations, a lot of Danites.

[00:11:19]All right. So now I want to just go ahead and read from this book. Going to get into a little deeper with the history and relationship of the Danites with their brothers and other nations. So we may understand who the Danites are a little better.

[00:11:35]says here, "The students manual of oriental history, a manual of the ancient history of the east to the commencement of the median wars by Francois Lenorman, librarian of the Institute of France and E. Chivalier, member of the Royal Asiatic Society in London, volume one, comprising the history of the Israelites, Egyptians, Assyrians, and Babylonians." All right.

[00:12:03]to these people. It's not just a biblical story. It's history along with all these other old world nations. And this is from 1871.

[00:12:16]Roman numeral here, but it's 1871.

[00:12:20]Okay, we're in page 114. We're going to flop to that part of the book. Says here, section two, period of repose, first servitude, commencement of the judges.

[00:12:32]while the elders lived who had been contemporaries of Joshua and who had assisted in the conquest. I remember that was the conquest I was just talking about when he was getting rid of all these squatters that had settled in the land of the Israelites. That was their lot, the descendants of Abraham.

[00:12:52]So while the elders lived still that had gone with him, the Hebrews maintained their respect for the law, for the worship of Hwah.

[00:13:00]In conformity with the last injunctions of Joshua, some of the tribes recommends hostilities either to make new conquest or to reconquer cities captured at the first invasion, but which the Canaanites had been able again to occupy. Thus the tribes of Judah and Simeon attack some Canaanite colonies near Bac whose precise position is unknown but which must be between Jerusalem in the Jordan.

[00:13:30]10,000 Canonites were defeated near that city whose king Adonis Bessc had his thumbs and great toes cut off a punishment which by his own account he had inflicted on 70 kings.

[00:13:47]Jerusalem, it is true, they could not take from the Jebusites, but all the rest of the mountains of Judah were cleared of enemies, and they even possessed themselves for a time of the cities of Gaza, Escalon, and Echron.

[00:14:05]Bethl fell by treason into the hands of the Empites.

[00:14:10]Nevertheless, the tribes wanted either the strength or the energy to expel completely or to exterminate the Canaanites as Moses had commanded.

[00:14:21]Joshua had committed a great fault in not name his successor.

[00:14:26]The want of Ahead, the absence of union and concert in their operations paralyzed the forces of the Hebrews.

[00:14:36]All right. Joshua didn't leave a leader.

[00:14:39]So bad things started happening. It was especially the northern tribes, those of Dan, Manos, Ephraim, Asher, Sebilon, and Afali that could not take all the cities which had been assigned to them or were obliged to contend themselves with imposing tribute on the Canaanites, permitting them still to live in the midst of Israel. In general, the coast city successfully repulsed the efforts of the Israelites and remained in the hands of their ancient predecessors.

[00:15:12]This is the reason why the campaigns of the last great warrior king of Egypt, Bries the third. Campaigns which took place at this time and touched only the sea coast of Palestine have no place in the history of the Hebrews. In the Egyptian inscriptions which give accounts of these wars, there is no reference to the children of Israel. And at the same time, the book of judges makes no mention of the passage of the Egyptian armies. A messenger of the divine will came to announce to the Hebrews the fatal consequences of of their weakness. The people admitted the truth of all that was said by the men of God, but they could only answer the appeal by their tears. The Canaanites became more and more dangerous by their material force, which was not yet broken, still more by their religious worship. most seductive to the senses and also by their corrupt manners. The old men who had surrounded Joshua died off one by one. From the good old days of warlike spirit and religious enthusiasm there only survived the high priest. Fenis whose aged arm could no longer avenge as once they did. insults to the laws and name of hwah and who was not capable of maintaining the political and religious unity of the tribes and of preserving them from anarchy. All right.

[00:16:35]So bad things again started happening.

[00:16:38]The old the elders had died off. Those who were left in charge were being corrupted. They didn't have that warlike spirit anymore. They were falling into anarchy. And then as it says here, idolatry and the corruption of manners increased from day to day. With no head and no common center, the tribes became estranged from one another and their mutual indifference threatened to grow into hostility.

[00:17:07]They were beefing amongst themselves.

[00:17:11]Two events recounted in the book of judges in which we must refer to the epic following the death of Joshua and his companions show how far after so short a time the sanguine anticipations of Moses and his successor had failed of realization.

[00:17:29]The one is that of the Levite, whom the people of the tribe of Dan took with them when they captured from the Canaanites the city of Leish and called it Dan and who representing Hwah by an idol and defiance of the first and most essential of the precepts of the decalogue. All right, the ten commandments, no idol worship. They were doing this, right? Again, they're talking about when Dan took over Laish, the Canaanite city. They named it Dan.

[00:17:59]And there Gerobam set up the calf right in their temples there, in their sacred temples there. That was for Hawai instituted in that city religious worship to rival that of the tabernacle of Shiloh. The other is the massacre of the tribe of Benjamin. This is what they were doing to their own brethren.

[00:18:21]by the other Confederate tribes to avenge the outrage committed on the wife of the Levite of Mount Ephraim. The details of this last event present a miserable picture of the barbarous manners of the period. The infamous conduct of the inhabitants of Giba, the corpse of the Levites wife cut in pieces and sent to all the tribes to provoke them to the war. the slaughter of the Benjamites wherein the innocent were confounded with the guilty and finally the expedition against Jabesh Gilead and the massacre of its inhabitants who had remained quiet during these events in order to give their daughters to the survivors of the tribe of Benjamin and thus enabled the tribe to recover itself. These all are actions unworthy of an organized community living under irregular government and civilized laws.

[00:19:17]All right. So again, just wanted to read this cuz they're pointing out, you know, again, just cuz they're Israelites don't mean they're not humans. All right.

[00:19:25]Humans, these people are not perfect always. And that's the whole point of about learning about this is the lessons that we learn, these historical lessons.

[00:19:35]In those days, says the book of Judges, after having related these two horrible incidents, there was no king in Israel.

[00:19:43]Every man did that which was right in his own eyes. All united political life had in fact seized with the life of Joshua. No central authority any longer existed. The Israelites had no other government than the separate tribal authorities. All right. It all ended with the life of Joshua. The real Jehoshua. The real Joshua. Kakult.

[00:20:09]What? Yeah. We talking about all this happening in ancient America. Correct orientation.

[00:20:18]The tribe was divided into houses. The house into families. Each comprised of many individuals. Each one of these divisions had its own chiefs princes of tribes of houses of families. But it would have been vain to seek for any national institution besides the sasseral body. and this had no real and political power. Under such a system, the bonds of nationality must soon have relaxed and the tribes become exchanged from one each other. Two things only could and would have preserved the unity of the people. First, the unity of belief and worship which brought all the tribes around the tabernacle of Shillow.

[00:20:58]Secondly, the danger of division when surrounded on all sides by hostile nations. But these purely moral bonds were not sufficiently strong for a people like the Hebrews. And we shall soon see how slight was the power they preserved and joined the sweets of peace. The Hebrews allied themselves with the Canaanites and neglected more and more the national sanctuary of Shiloh. All right. They what? They started associating and allying themselves with who? Canonites. The sons of Ham. And soon they did not fear even to give themselves over to the worship of Bal Asharov and all the Phoenician divinities.

[00:21:39]That patriotic feeling which should always have been strengthened by religious unity and the solemn assemblies of the Mosaic feast became weaker every day. And soon the tribes isolated and without a head were attacked either by neighboring nations or by the enemies whom they had the imprudence to tolerate in the interior of the country and who began to recover themselves and to gain strength from time to time. It is true an energetic man put himself at the head of a certain tribes or even of the entire nation to revive the national spirit and throw off the foreign joke. But he had not always the power nor even the will to revive religious feeling and the love of the mosaic institutions. And after his death, the people fell back again into anarchy. During many centuries, there were continual best institutes of reverses and prosperity of anarchy and absolute government. But the institution given to Israel at Sinai were no longer thought of. This period is usually termed that of the judges, a word intended as a translation of the Hebrew title given to those temporary liberators who became by their exploits the first magistrates of the nation or more frequently of a part only of the nation. But the word is very illchosen for it in no way gives an exact idea of the functions and powers of the men to whom it applied. It would be much better to employ here the Hebrew word itself and to name the so-called judges whose authority was in no way judicial. The Sufettes of Israel for this name Sufi is set apart in Roman history as the designation of the first magistrates of the Carthaginian Republic whose title was the same and their power similar to those of these magistrates of Israel.

[00:23:33]For our part, this is the designation to which we shall give the preference. All right. So, I just wanted to show what was going on. The Danites had a lot to do with this. You know, they were going into idol worship and dealing with a lot of these other nations. There was a lot of chaos going on. No true leaders. And this is the period of the judges. These judges would judge other nations and their own people to set things straight.

[00:24:01]And as we shall see the Danites were the judges. All right. So again, Dan, the son of Jacob, right, fifth son. And in Hebrew, Don or Den, judgment or he judged. All right, was the first of the two sons of Jacob and Bilha. His mother Bilha was a Rachel's handmmaid who becomes one of Jacob's concubines. Okay.

[00:24:24]Again, the text of the Torah explains that the name of Dan derives from Dani.

[00:24:30]Dan, the nan, right? The nan. The Dan, the Dan, meaning he has judged me in reference to Rachel's belief that she had gained a child as the result of a judgment from God. All right, Dan. Dani.

[00:24:47]Remember that word, Dani.

[00:24:50]That's Hebrew. That's their original name. So we continue. We're going to read from the Encyclopedia Judeaica second edition. This is volume 5. And of course, we're going to the part on page 405 where it's talking about Dan. And again, the fifth son of Jacob, the firstborn of Bilah, Rachel's maid.

[00:25:13]Again, the narrative attributes the origin of the name Dan to Rachel who said, "God has vindicated me, Dan." All right, remember again, Dan. Dan. The name would be derived from the verb den to judge or vindicate. All right, a judge. Some scholars see it in the name Dan, the divine epithet dian. Dian dian.

[00:25:34]Remember the Egyptians called him Dian.

[00:25:36]While others regard it as divine name in itself. Most likely, however, the literal meaning intended by the biblical ethmology is correct and the name Dan should be regarded as a short form of da nan lanel or the like daan.

[00:25:54]All right, so just go a little further ahead, get here a little bit of the history of the tribes just to gain more understanding about who the Danites were and what was going on with their situation here with the other Israelite tribes and other nations. Dan was the only one of the handmade tribes originally to settle among the tribes of Leah and Rachel. Its inheritance bordered on Ephraim, Benjamin, and Judah. It would seem that at first its territory was limited to that area between Sora and Ehta. Here, however, they were under pressure from Amorites on the west, right? Remember who the Amorites are?

[00:26:30]They're Canaanites and perhaps also from the house of Joseph on the east. All right? even with their own brethren, the house of Joseph.

[00:26:40]There may even have been pressure from Judah. All right, even Judah. So, they don't got good relationships right now with these nations. At any rate, the tribe of Dan was forced to search for a new area of settlement. The story of this second attempt is related in detail and unique narrative which may have wider significance. That's in the book of Judges, right? That's where we get the book of Judges. The Danite experience possibly constitutes the paradigm for all movements and migrations of the tribes of Israel during the period of settlement. Three references in ancient Hebrew poetry reflect the history of the Danites during the period of the judges and the beginning of the monarchy. These are the illusions to be found in Jacob's blessing, the blessing of Moses and the song of Deborah. Short poetic utterances in which, however, there is more that is obscure than is clear. Jacob's blessing appears to reflect the earliest period in the history of the Danites, describing a tribe which on the one hand is struggling for recognition.

[00:27:39]Why wouldn't they be recognized, participation, and responsibility within the tribal confederacy and on the other is fighting for survival against nomadic tribes or even the Amorites. So they're under a lot of pressure. In the song of Deborah, the tribe is berated for not having participated in the war against the Canaanites. All right. They didn't help the other Israelite tribes against the Canaanites. With biting irony, the question is asked, "And then why did he abide with the ships?" Judges 5:17.

[00:28:12]Meaning, why were they seafaring instead of helping out locally, you know, the other tribes? It is not clear from this verse exactly where Dan resided at the time of Deborah's war. Were they in the south across Frafa on the coast before the migration northward or already in the north following the migration right it's not clear they don't know so they can't tell you exactly right scholarly opinion generally favors the presence of Dan already in the north at this time since it appears in the song of Deborah together with the northern tribe of Asher in the blessing of Moses.

[00:28:47]It is clear that the tribe is in its northern location since it is described as a lion's welp that leaves forth from Bashan and is also coupled with the northerni its brother tribe. The Samson narratives indirectly give information concerning the Danite families which remained in their southern inheritance during the period of the judges. Those families in Mahanedan, all right, Dan, between Sorah and Eshta were subjugated by the Philistines. All right, remember Hamites, Philistines together with the tribes of the house of Joseph and Judah, though they suffered more than the others since they were the first to be affected by the Philistine eastward expansion cuz the Danites had borders with these people. Samson's guerilla activities led to a hardening of Philistine rule. At the same time, Samson's experiences show that despite the attempt to preserve the purity of the family, tribe, and nation by not intermixing with the nations of the land, social contact and even marital ties were established between the Danite clans and the Philistines and Hamites.

[00:30:03]So a tribe of Israel, right? Intermarian with Hammites. These are the Danites.

[00:30:10]All right. So we see a connection with Danites and Hammites. Just real quick going back to Urban's dictionary of the Bible. So we got Hushim earlier was one of the sons of Dan or a descendant of Dan, right? As it says here, a son of Dan. The form Shuham occurs in numbers. Right? Now it says here, Shu Ham, a Danite, right? Shu Ham, right? Hamite, ancestor of the Shu Hamite, Hamite clans. Shu Hamite, Hamite clans. Let's go back again. Samson's experience shows that despite the attempt to preserve the purity of the family, tribe, and nation by not intermixing with the nations of the land, social contact and even marital ties were established between the Danite clans and the Philistines, Hammites. So it makes sense that he would name his son Shuham keeping the name of one of the progenitors on the Hamite side, right?

[00:31:08]On the Philistine side. According to why Jadin, the biblical references prove that at a certain stage of Dan's settlement, the tribe enjoyed the closest relationship with the sea peoples. Okay, the Danites were sea peoples. They were mixing with them and they were the sea peoples. A large part of those ancient sea peoples were banites, right? That's what we're going to get into. This is why I'm doing this video so we can understand as we proceed with our research and go into other topics when we start talking about Phoenicians and sea peoples. Now, you guys know already Phoenicians came out of Atlantis so-called cananan that was America, the real promised land that was over here.

[00:31:50]So, it coincides with what they're saying here, right? The Danites receive people. Dan's coming from the promised land, too. The real one. And remember the videos we did on the ancient navigators of America. We know we had the capabilities. We've been doing it for thousands of years. Our ships, they call them canoes, but they fit about 150 to 200 people. Some of them, these were just like the so-called Phoenician or Viking ships made out of one tree. We had huge trees here in the Americas, the real Lebanon.

[00:32:25]Continuing that Dan was an ancient tribe that extended over the entire east and that during this early period it had no connection with the Confederacy of the tribes of Israel. It gradually moved closer to the tribes of Israel until it was accepted into the Amphiion and became one of them.

[00:32:45]Its original area of settlement was along the coast near Jafa in the region between the settlements of the Philistines and those of the Teker mentioned in Egyptian records. In Jadin's view, there is a close relationship between the tribe of Dan and the tribe of Danai.

[00:33:03]Okay. Again, they're telling you who are the Dansons or the Dana of Greece, ancient Greece. These ancient so-called Greeks whose members were clearly seafarers. All right? Seafarers who had a propensity for the worship of the sun and whose heroes excelled in their talent for solving riddles. Factions of the tribe wandered as fighting troops spread to different places. as they come the Danites and founded cities which they named for the patriarchs of the tribe. These groups of the tribe of the Dana oi were particularly attracted to the east Mediterranean coast in general and the Jaffa area in particular. The similarities between their history and that of the tribe of Dan led Jadin to suggest the identification of the two.

[00:33:54]It is possible, however, to explain the parallels as resulting from contact and influence. Moreover, there does not appear to have been any contact between the sea peoples and the tribe of Dan before the migration of the latter to the north under Amorite pressure. The information about Dan from the period of the monarchy until the destruction is negligible. It would seem that with the founding of the monarchy, the Danite clans in the south were assimilated into the kingdoms of Judah and Israel and lost their distinctiveness. As for those in the north, they appeared to have been concentrated around the city of Dawn, the importance of which increased after the division of the kingdom Gerobam, son of Nebat. All right, Jeroboam, if you guys know scripture, he was the first king of Israel. They mean 10 tribes, which does not include Judah or Benjamin. All right, this is when they were separated.

[00:34:46]So there was the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah at this time. Now listen to what Jeroboam did. Gerobone established a central royal sanctuary in Dan, the northern end of his kingdom, and placed in it one of the two golden calves of the worship of the God of Israel in an attempt to renew the ancient cultic centers and to revive the early traditions in order to remove the members of the northern kingdom from contact with Jerusalem and its temple.

[00:35:14]The Danite clans of the north apparently intermingled with their neighbors, especially the tribe of Navali and even with the people of Tier. All right, even with the people of Tier, who are the Tyrions?

[00:35:28]So again, the Danites intermixing, right? So if they're mixing with the people of Tier, wouldn't they become Tyrions too? Their sons and then in history, people will forget that they were Danites too. All right, just think about that. Remember Kim Hyram? His mom was a Danite. And then it says his dad was a man of tear. Could that man of tear could also be a Danite since we know Danites were there mixing with the Tyrions in that area? The territory of Dan in the north constituted in the northern flank of the kingdom of Israel and it suffered in the struggles and wars between Israel and Aram and between Israel and Assyria. So again, Israel was battling with the Aramites. That's a son of Shem, descendants of Shem, but they're not Israelites, right? They're not descendants of Arashite.

[00:36:18]And between Israel and Assyria. And Assyrians again also sons of Shem. These are all Shemmitic, right? Or Semitic fighting amongst each other. Again, Assyrians are from Ashure, another son of Shem, but not from Arfish. Dan where Eber and Abraham come from and the time of King Basha of Israel. The cities of Dan Han Dan and Abel Beth Makkah were conquered by Ben Hadad, king of Aram, who had been hired by King Assa of Judah. All right. So you see that. All right. So you see the tribe of Judah was at war with the Danites because they were over there allowing Jerobom and the king of Israel to you know put idols in the temples and the Danites were mixing with again the Philistines and the people of Tier. In the time of Pekka king of Israel the territory of Dan together with that of Napali and the whole of Galilee was conquered by Tiglav Pelzer III and its inhabitants were exiled to Assyria.

[00:37:23]They were sent as exiles. Remember in this region he established the Assyrian province of Megiddo.

[00:37:30]All right. Megiddo. That's where Dan was. Megiddo or Armageddon. That's where the word Armageddon comes from. From Megiddo. That's right there where Dan was. So I just wanted you guys to see for yourself. Written in here in the Encyclopedia Judeica. The Danites were mixing with other nations. They were not part of the uh Israel tribal confederacy for a while. literally like they were outsiders. They had become outsiders.

[00:37:56]And very importantly, they were seaf farers, a seafaring nation, part of the ancient sea people that we read about all the time.

[00:38:08]I hope you enjoyed that. That is the end of part one. Please make sure to watch part two.

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