In the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,
Parallel translations
- KJV And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,
- BSB These were in the foothills: Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,
- NKJV In the lowland: Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,
- NASB In the lowland: Eshtaol, Zorah, and Ashnah,
- NLT The following towns situated in the western foothills were also given to Judah: Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,
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Quick answer
The list turns to the lowland (Shephelah), beginning with Eshtaol, Zorah, and Ashnah. A new region of Judah is enumerated.
Overview
The Shephelah was the fertile foothill region between the hills and the coastal plain. Zorah would be the hometown of Samson (Judges 13:2). These productive lowlands formed a vital and contested part of Judah's inheritance bordering Philistine territory.
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- Judg 13:25Yahweh’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
- Judg 16:31Then his brothers 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 burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.
- Num 13:23They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.
- Josh 19:41The border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh,
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