The territory of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh,
Parallel translations
- WEB The border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh,
- 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,
- NLT The land allocated as their homeland included the following towns: Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,
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Quick answer
Dan's inheritance includes Zorah, Eshtaol, and Irshemesh. Zorah and Eshtaol would later be associated with Samson.
Overview
The territory listed lay in the fertile Shephelah near the Philistine frontier. Zorah and Eshtaol are the towns where the Spirit would later stir Samson, the Danite judge (Judges 13:25). This ordinary boundary list quietly names the stage for later acts of God's deliverance, showing how the land's geography served the unfolding story of redemption.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- 2 Chr 11:10Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and in Benjamin.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 13:25Yahweh’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
- Josh 15:33In the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,
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