Judges 18:29

“And they called the name of the city Dan, etc.] The name of their tribe, and to show that though they were at the furthest part of the land northward, and at such a distance from their tribe, which lay to the southwest, yet they belonged to it: after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel; one of the twelve sons of Jacob or Israel: however, the name of the city was Laish at first; which signifies a “lion”, and might be so called from its being infested with lions, which might come from the mountain of Lebanon, near to which it was, and whither Dan, as a lion’s whelp, leaped, (<053322>Deuteronomy 33:22) and now the prophecy had its accomplishment. This place was also called…”

“Of Dan - That it might be manifest, that they belonged to the tribe of Dan, though they were seated at a great distance from them, in the most northerly part of the land; whereas the lot of their tribe was in the southern part of Canaan. Judges 18:30”

“Dan: Jdg 20:1; Gen 14:14; Jos 19:47; Sa2 17:11; Kg1 12:29, Kg1 12:30, Kg1 15:20 who was: Gen 30:6, Gen 32:28; Laish, or Dan, was situated at the northern extremity of the land of Canaan, in a beautiful and fertile plain, at the foot of mount Lebanon, on the springs of Jordan, and, according to Eusebius, four miles from Cesarea Philippi, or Paneas, now Banias (with which some have confounded it), towards Tyre. Burckhardt says, that the source of the river El Dhan, or Jordan, is at an hour's distance from Banias, which agrees with Eusebius. Judges 18:30”