1 Samuel 12:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And Bedan We have no mention of Bedan in the book of Judges or elsewhere before, and therefore many commentators think this is another name for Barak. Others, however, think Samson to be the person here meant, being here called Ben-Dan, the son of Dan, or Be-Dan, that is, in or of Dan, because he was of that tribe, and to signify that they had no reason to distrust God, who could raise so eminent a saviour out of so obscure a tribe. And ye dwelled safe So that it was not necessity, but mere wantonness, that made you desire a change.