These are the sons of Dan— Thus the sacred writer speaks, though Dan had but one son; it being frequent in the Hebrew to put the plural for the singular. Under the name sons, his descendants in general are included. This tribe increased into very great divisions and subdivisions of families, all derived from Shuham, the only son of Dan. See Genesis 46:23 where, by a transposition of letters, Shuham is called Husham. The learned reader will find many such variations in names, the causes for which must be left to the disquisitions of criticism.
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Numbers 26:42
42 These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham,m the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families.