Zorah
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- Also called ZAREAH and ZOREAH
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A city of the tribe of Dan or possibly the tribe of Judah
Josh 15:33; 19:41
33 And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,
Joshua 15:3341 And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Irshemesh,
Joshua 19:41 -
The city of Samson
Judg 13:2, 24, 25; 16:31
2 And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.
Judges 13:224 And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.
Judges 13:2425 And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
Judges 13:2531 Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.
Judges 16:31 -
Representatives of the tribe of Dan sent from, to spy out the land with a view to its conquest
Judg 18
1 In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel. 2 And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there. 3 When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this place? and what hast thou here? 4 And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest. 5 And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous. 6 And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the LORD is your way wherein ye go. 7 Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man. 8 And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye? 9 And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land. 10 When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth. …
Judges 18:1 … -
Fortified by Rehoboam
2 Chr 11:10
10 And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities.
2 Chronicles 11:10 -
Re-populated after the captivity
Neh 11:29
29 And at Enrimmon, and at Zareah, and at Jarmuth,
Nehemiah 11:29
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
