Appoint for you three men of each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall arise, and walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; and they shall come to me.
Dan’s original position was on the Philistine coast between the tribes of Judah and Ephraim. Squeezed between Israel’s two most powerful tribes, and pushed back from the coast by the Philistines and the Amorites, the tribe of Dan later moved and settled in the far north (40-48; Judges 1:34; Judges 18:1-31). Finally, Joshua received his special inheritance, which, by God’s command, he himself chose. It was in the area of his own tribe, Ephraim (49-51).