Etam

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

1. A village of Simeon

• 1 Chronicles 4:32 And their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan— five towns—

2. A city in Judah

• 2 Chronicles 11:6 He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

3. A name on the list of Judah's descendants, but probably referring to number two

• 1 Chronicles 4:3 These were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. And their sister was named Hazzelelponi.

4. A rock where Samson was bound and delivered to the Philistines

• Judges 15:8 And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.
• Judges 15:11–13 In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied. But they said to him, “We have come down to arrest you and h…