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Zorah

Named in 9 verses across 3 books, first in Joshua 15:33.

In the Bible

All 9 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Joshua

  • Joshua 15:33

    These were in the foothills: Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,

  • Joshua 19:41

    The territory of their inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,

Judges

  • Judges 13:2

    Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.

  • Judges 13:25

    And the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him at Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

  • Judges 16:31

    Then Samson’s brothers and his father’s family came down, carried him back, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. And he had judged Israel twenty years.

  • Judges 18:2

    So the Danites sent out five men from their clans, men of valor from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. “Go and explore the land,” they told them. The men entered the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah, where they spent the night.

  • Judges 18:8

    When the men returned to Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers asked them, “What did you find?”

  • Judges 18:11

    So six hundred Danites departed from Zorah and Eshtaol, armed with weapons of war.

2 Chronicles

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

Place of wasps, a town in the low country of Judah, afterwards given to Dan (Josh. 19:41; Judg. 18:2), probably the same as Zoreah (Josh. 15:33). This was Samson’s birthplace (Judg. 13:2, 25), and near it he found a grave (16:31). It was situated on the crest of a hill overlooking the valley of Sorek, and was fortified by Rehoboam (2 Chr. 11:10). It has been identified with Sur’ah, in the Wady Surar, 8 miles west of Jerusalem. It is noticed on monuments in the fifteenth century B.C. as attacked by the Abiri or Hebrews.

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