The border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh,
Parallel translations
- KJV And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Irshemesh,
- BSB The territory of their inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,
- NKJV And the territory of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir Shemesh,
- NASB The territory of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh,
- NLT The land allocated as their homeland included the following towns: Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,
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- Josh 15:33In the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,
- Judg 13:25Yahweh’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
- Judg 18:2The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land!” They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
- 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.
- Judg 13:2There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and childless.
- 1 Chr 2:53The families of Kiriath Jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.
- 2 Chr 11:10Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and in Benjamin.
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