Joshua 21:42

The Scripture says: None of all his enemies resisted before them. We ask how this can be true, when shortly before it was said of the tribe of Dan that their enemies were not allowed to go down into the valley and overcame them in the mountains (Cf Jos 19,48 47). The answer is that here too we can understand this fact as we explain in discussing the twelve sons of Jacob, that the Scripture states that they were born in Mesopotamia, when Benjamin was not born there. Here the eleven tribes are considered as if they were all the people, in the way that we sufficiently know by other passages of the Scriptures. But if we look for the reason why this tribe did not get enough land in the lottery that was made and was bothered by the people who owned that land, we must admit that the explanation certainly lies in the secret counsel of God. But, when Jacob blessed his children, he said such things about Dan that some think that the antichrist (Cf Gn 49,17) will come from this tribe. Therefore, we are not going to say more things now, since this question could also be resolved by saying that none of all their enemies resisted before them, when the tribes waged war all together under the command of a single leader, before the territories were divided. between the tribes, territories that each one had to defend on their own.