Judges 18:29

29. Called the name of the city Dan It henceforth became the northern limit of the land of Israel, and the formula “from Dan to Beer-sheba” is of frequent occurrence throughout the historical books. Compare Judges 20:1. This city is mentioned as early as the time of Abram. Genesis 14:14. It was situated about twelve miles north of the waters of Merom, on a circular hill, (the modern Tell el-Kady,) half a mile in circumference, and nearly eighty feet above the level of the surrounding plain. The chief ruins are on the southern declivity of the hill, but “not one solitary habitation is there. The fountain at the base of the hill pours forth its river of delicious water, but herds of black buffaloes wash and wallow in its crystal pools. You cannot even examine the site with satisfaction, so dense is the jungle of briers, thorns, and thistles which have over-spread it.” Thomson. The top of the hill commands a wide and beautiful prospect. “Often,” says the writer just quoted, “have I sat under its great oak and gazed in dreamy delight upon the luxuriant plain of the Huleh. No wonder the spies exclaimed, (Judges 18:9-10,) ‘We have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: a place where there is no want of any thing there is in the earth.’”