Deuteronomy 33:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

A lion's whelp Courageous, and generous, and strong, and successful against his enemies. Which leapeth from Bashan Because there were many and fierce lions in those parts, whence they used to come forth and leap upon the prey. Or this may refer either to the particular victories obtained by Samson, who was of the tribe of Dan, or to a more general achievement of that tribe, when a party of them surprised Laish, which lay in the furthest part of the land of Canaan from them. And the mountain of Bashan lying not far from that city, from whence they probably made their descent upon it, thus leaping from Bashan.

Deuteronomy 33:22

22 And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.