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<DIV>John Knight</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>From "Dan, The Pioneer of Israel"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>"The northern city Laish, now called Dan, by the tribe of Dan, was about
thirty miles inland from the ancient busy port of Tyre. Thus the ancient
Danites must of had frequent contacts with the people of Tyre, which was in
fact occupied by their brethren the tribe of Asher, see Joshua 19:29. So since
their Israelite brothers occupied the land of Tyre, they had access to Tyre at
anytime. These people of Tyre were a people of sea trade and navigation, see
Ezekiel 27. These people built Tyre and Sidon on the Lebanese coast.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tyre and Sidon were Canaanite cities. The city of
Sidon has its <SPAN
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face=Arial>patronymic</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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style="mso-spacerun: yes"> <FONT face=Arial>origins with Sidon, the first
born son of Canaan. There's no doubt that Israel's northern boundaries at
least extended to the boundaries of Tyre, but may gone beyond to Greater
Sidon, which lies 30 miles to the north. Nevertheless, the Canaanites were in
close proximity to the tribe of Dan to provide great influences on ship
building and merchantilism. </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>"Jewish Historian Josephus shows that the Lacedemonian (Spartans of
Greece) were actually Danites, and therefore closely related to the
Jews."</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The historian Josephus was a jew (i.e. aligned
himself to Phariseeism). We know that he could not have possibly used the word
"jew" because it didn't exist at that time. He most likely stated "Judahites"
instead of term "jews." At any rate, he is talking about the same
race.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>"When in former times an epistle was brought to Onias, who was then our
high priest . . . we have discovered that both the Jews and the Lacedemonians
are of ONE STOCK, and are derived from the KINDRED OF ABRAHAM..."</DIV>
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<P><A
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<P align=center><BIG><BIG><BIG><FONT face=Haettenschweiler size=6>Dan, The
Pioneer of Israel</FONT></BIG></BIG></BIG></P>
<P align=center><BIG><BIG><BIG><FONT face=Haettenschweiler size=6>Page
8</FONT></BIG></BIG></BIG></P>
<P>When the 12 tribes of Israel actually took possession of the promised land,
the tribe of Dan was allotted its tribal inheritance in the southwestern area
of that land.. Dan was situated west-Northwest of Judah; Dan's territory
extended westward to the Mediterranean Sea, and included the busy port of
Joppa, next to modern Tel-Aviv (Joshua 19:40-48).</P>
<P>Now the Danites migrated Northwards to Laish, and called the city Dan,
after their father, see Judges 18. The northern city Laish, now called Dan, by
the tribe of Dan, was about thirty miles inland from the ancient busy port of
Tyre. Thus the ancient Danites must of had frequent contacts with the people
of Tyre, which was in fact occupied by their brethren the tribe of Asher, see
Joshua 19:29. So since their Israelite brothers occupied the land of Tyre,
they had access to Tyre at anytime. These people of Tyre were a people of sea
trade and navigation, see Ezekiel 27. These people built Tyre and Sidon on the
Lebanese coast.</P>
<P>In the 1200's B.C., before Dan went to Laish, in a song commemorating a
great Israelite victory, the Judge Deborah lamented that during the battle,
the "men of Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan [River], and [asked] why DAN
REMAINED IN SHIPS?" (Judges 5:17). The Danites were so preoccupied with the
Sea and sea trade that they chose to remain in their ships than help their
brethren. So even before the time they went to Laish, the Danites were already
engaged in sea-faring activities.</P>
<P>J.C. Gawler quotes from the Chronicles of Ireland and says: "Again (p.123),
'The Danites ruled about two centuries until the arrival of the Milesians,
which took place, 1000 years before the Christian era.' Thus the date of the
arrival of the FIRST COLONY OF DANAANS WOULD BE 1200 B.C., or 85 years after
Deborah and Baraks victory, when we are told Dan had ships...The early
connection with Greece, Phoenician and Egypt is constantly alluded throughout
the Chronicles [of Ireland] and records of the Irish Dannans" (Dan Pioneer of
Israel, pp.30-31, emphasis added). After the first batch of Dannans left for
Ireland, the remaining Danites migrated North 30 miles away from Tyre. These
Danites that migrated North to Laish are the 3RD BATCH OF DANAANS THAT WENT TO
IRELAND. These Danites worshipped Idol gods at that time, and brought them to
Ireland, and Gawler points out, "The Psalter at Cashel says that the Tower of
Tara [In Ireland] was built for the preservation of the fire of Baal, and was
called Bel Theine...and that the mark of Phoenicia and Israel [was] Baal
worship" (ibid., p.31).</P>
<P>What route did the first batch of Danaans take? Irish Historian Thomas
Moore says that one of the earliest resident peoples of Ireland-the
Firbolgs-were dispossessed by the Tuatha de Danaans, "who after sojourning for
some time in Greece...proceeded thence to Denmark and Norway" (History of
Ireland, vol.1, p.59) Then the Danaans proceeded to Ireland. So we see a time
span of about 85 years, after Deborah, the judge of Israel uttered those words
about Dan in ships!</P>
<P>The word "Tuatha" simply means "tribe"-"Tuatha...Irish history...A 'Tribe'
or 'people' in Ireland"' (New English Dictionary on Historical principles,
vol.10, pt 1, p.441). The word Dan means Judge in the Hebrew. "Dan [Heb
"Judge"] shall Judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel" (Gen 49:16).
"<STRONG>It is certainly no coincidence that the Irish Gaelic word Dun or Dunn
means Judge..."</STRONG>' (America and Britain in Prophecy, Raymond McNair,
p.25, emphasis theirs).</P>
<P>Another Irish Historian Geoffrey Keating mentions the SECOND BATCH of
Danites of Judges 18, who were the THIRD BATCH OF DANAANS that went to Ireland
AFTER THE MILESIANS, and he says: "...the Danaans were a people of great
learning and wealth; they left Greece after a battle with the ASSYRIANS and
went to Ireland; and also to Denmark, and called it 'DAN-mares,' Dans'
country" (History of Ireland, vol.1, pp.195, 199, emphasis added). When the
Assyrians attacked in the 8th century, the Danites of the promised land, left
and joined their brothers in Ireland, who already settled there in different
waves of immigration. They left to get away from the battle with Assyria.</P>
<P>The Encyclopedia Britannica tells us that the ancestor of the Danaans was
"According to late Danish tradition...Juteland [mainland Denmark] was acquired
by DAN, THE ANCESTOR OF THE DANES FROM WHERE THEIR NAME DERIVES (under article
'Denmark,' vol.8, 11th edition, emphasis added). Like the Danites of old, they
named Denmark after their father Dan.</P>
<P align=center><BIG><FONT face=Haettenschweiler size=4>Testimony of Josephus,
the Jewish Historian</FONT></BIG></P>
<P align=left>Jewish Historian Josephus shows that the Lacedemonian (Spartans
of Greece) were actually Danites, and therefore closely related to the Jews.
Josephus relates an incredible letter from Sparta to Judah: "</P>
<UL>
<P>"Jonathan the high priest of the Jewish nation . . . to the ephori and
senate and the people of the Lacedemonians, send greeting:</P></UL>
<UL>
<P>"When in former times an epistle was brought to Onias, who was then our
high priest . . . we have discovered that both the Jews and the
Lacedemonians are of ONE STOCK, and are derived from the KINDRED OF
ABRAHAM...concerning the KINDRED THAT WAS BETWEEN US AND YOU, a copy of
which is here subjoined, we both joyfully received the epistle . . . because
we were well satisfied about it from the SACRED WRITINGS, yet did not we
think fit, first to begin the claim of this RELATION TO YOU, the glory which
is now given us by you. It is a long time since this relation of ours to you
hath been renewed, and when we, upon holy and festival days offer sacrifices
to God, we pray to Him for your preservation and victory . . . . You will,
therefore, do well yourselves to write to us, and send us an account of what
you stand in need of from us, since we are in all things disposed to act
according to your desires...<STRONG>This letter is foursquare: and the seal
is an eagle, with a dragon [snake or serpent] in its claws"</STRONG>
(<B><I>Antiquities of the Jews</I></B>, bk 12 chapter 4 sec 10; XIII, 5, 8,
emphasis added).</P>
<P> </P></UL>
<P>The Lacedemonians received the Jewish ambassadors carrying the letter
kindly and made a decree of friendship and mutual assistance with the Jews,
and then sent the letter to their Lacedemonian kinsmen. </P>
<P>In <B><I>Ancient Mythology</I></B>, Bryant relates that Stephanus Byzantium
shows that Alexander Polyhistor and Claudius Jolaus also speak of a direct
relationship or kindship between the Spartan Greeks and the people of Judaea
(vol.5, p.51-52, 60). </P>
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<P align=center><BIG><FONT face=Haettenschweiler size=4>Dan -- A Serpent's
Trail</FONT></BIG></P>
<P>Jacob prophesied that Dan would be a "Serpent by the way, an adder by the
path," meaning that he would leave a trail wherever he would go. In the Bible
we have seen evidence of this naming everything after their father "Dan," see
Joshua 19:47; Judges 18:12, 27-29. When the Danites migrated to Ireland, they
left a trail of names throughout Europe. The city of Troy was located at the
mouth of the Bosporus DarDANelles. From their they migrated into Europe and
left names all over and into DANmark and Norway.</P>
<P>In Hebrew there are no vowels, so the name Dan is written DN, or its Hebrew
equivalent. Thus words like Dan, Din, Don, Dun, Den, or Dn, correspond to the
name of Dan.</P>
<P>Just west of the Black Sea, ancient geographers designated a region by the
name of Moesia, which means the land of the "Moses-ites." These people revered
a person whom they called Zal-moxis. "Zal" significes "chief," so this person,
"chief Moxis" or "leader Moxis" was actually "chier MOSES," the man of God who
led Israel to the promised land, and whom these people remembered as their
original leader. The tribe of Dan also passed through this region, and the
surrounding territory, leaving its name in Mace-DON-ia, and the Dar-DAN-elles,
and to the north by the river DAN-ube. In the territory of Sarmatia (or
Samaria, meaning the Israelites), were located the rivers DN-iper, DN-ister,
and the DON.</P>
<P>Professor Totten declares:
<UL>
<P>"There is no grander theme upon the scrolls of history than the story of
this struggle of the Anglo-Saxons westward. The very streams of Europe mark
their resting places, and in the root of nearly all their ancient names
(Dan, or Don) recall the sacred stream Jor-dan river of rest-- from whose
whose hands, so far away, as exiles, they set out. It was either the little
colony of Dan, obeying its tribal proclivity for naming everything it cap-
turied (Jud.18:1-29) after their father, or else the mere survival of a word
and custom; but, none the less, it serves to TRACE these wanderers LIKE A
TRAIL. Hence the Dan-ube, the Dan-ieper, the Dan-iester, the Dan-au, the
Daci and Davi, the Dan, the Don, the U-Don, the Eri-don, and the THOUSAND
OTHER dans and dons of ancient and early geography, down to the Danes in
Dan-emerke, or 'Dan's last resting place'" (quoted in Allen, <B><I>Judah's
Sceptre and Joseph's Birthright</I></B>, p.263-64).</P></UL>
<P>Denmark, the name of the modern country in Europe north of Germany, means,
literally, "Dan's mark." It's people are called "Danes." In fact, because at
one time Denmark ruled all the surrounding region, the whole region took its
name from them the ScanDINavian peninsula! Clearly, here are remnants of the
people of DAN, who migrated westward overland from the Caucasus to their
present location in northern Europe!</P>
<P>However, other Danites, who dwelt or abode in ships, and who associated
themselves with the sea peoples of Tyre and Sidon, fled westward through the
Mediterranean when northern Israel fell. Early Danites fled Egypt
migrated through SarDINia, and left their trail along the sea-coasts of the
Mediterranean. Thus Dan, who was a "lion's whelp" who would "leap from
Bashan," leaped all the way to Ireland, where historians explain that the
early settlers were known as the "Tuatha de Danaan" -- literally, the "tribe
of Dan." The Greeks called them the Danoi, the Romans called them Danaus. </P>
<P align=left>In Ireland, today, we find their customary evidence -- their
place names -- in abundance. Such names as Dans-Lough, Dan-Sower, Dan-Monism,
Dun-dalke, Dun-drum, Don-egal Bay, Don-egal City, Dun-glow and Lon-don-derry,
as well as Din-gle, Dun-garven and Duns-more, which means "MORE DANS." Of
course, the most famous Irish ballad of all time is the song, "Danny Boy." It
should be plain that the country of Ireland is replete, filled with names
which derive from the ancient patriarch of the Hebrews -- DAN, the son of
Jacob! It should be plain that the ancient Danites settled in Ireland, and
most of them dwell in that land,
today.</P></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BODY></HTML></FONT></FONT>
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