For the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood of Yahweh is their inheritance: and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them.
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).