Mahaneh-dan

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Mahaneh-dan
     Judg. 18:12 = "camp of Dan" 13:25 (R.V., "Mahaneh-dan"), a place
     behind (i.e., west of) Kirjath-jearim, where the six hundred
     Danites from Zorah and Eshtaol encamped on their way to capture
     the city of Laish, which they rebuilt and called "Dan, after the
     name of their father" (18:11-31). The Palestine Explorers point


     to a ruin called 'Erma, situated about 3 miles from the great
     corn valley on the east of Samson's home.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Mahanehdan, tents of judgment