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Zorah

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: Z By: James P. Boyd

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(hornet). A town in the lowlands of Judah, afterward assigned to Dan (Josh. 19:41⁴¹And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh, (Joshua 19:41)). Written Zoreah (Josh. 15:33³³And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah, (Joshua 15:33)), and Zareah (Neh. 11:29²⁹And at En-rimmon, and at Zareah, and at Jarmuth, (Nehemiah 11:29)). Residence of Manoah and burial place of his son Samson (Judg. 13:2,24-25; 16:31²And 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 13:2)
²⁴And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the Lord blessed him. ²⁵And the Spirit of the Lord began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol. (Judges 13:24‑25)
³¹Then 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)).

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