DAN-JAAN.Joab and his officers in taking the census came to Dan-jaan and round about to Zidon (2Sa_24:6). No such place is mentioned anywhere else in OT, and it is generally assumed that the text is corrupt. It has indeed been proposed to locate Dan-jaan at a ruin N. of Achzib which is said to bear the name Khan Dâniân; but this identification, although accepted by Conder, has not made headway. The reference is more probably to the city of Dan which appears so frequently as the northern limit of the kingdom.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
2Sa_24:6. Visited by Joab in taking the census for David; lying on the route between Gilead and Zidon. Septuagint and Vulgate read "Dan in the wood" (Dan-jaar), corresponding to the country about Tel-el-Kady. Baal-jaan, a Phoenician god's name, is found upon coins. The Dan forming the northern bound of Israel at the sources of the Jordan is probably meant.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
dan-jā?an (דּן יען, dān ya‛an; B, Δὰν Εἰδὰν καὶ Οὐδάν, Dán Eidán kaı́ Oudán): A place visited by Joab and his officers when taking the census (2Sa_24:6). It is mentioned between Gilead and Sidon. Some would identify it with Khān Dāniān, a ruined site North of Achzib. The text is probably corrupt. Klostermann would read ?toward Dan and Ijon? (compare 1Ki_15:20).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.