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.
Key themes
Justice and mercySalvationApostasyDeliverance
Glossary
- Eshtaol Place
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Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Khirbet Deir Shubeib.
- Manoah Person
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Rest, a Danite, the father of Samson ( Judg. 13:1-22 , and 14:2-4).
- Zorah Place
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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. Modern identification: Tel Tzora.