Zorah

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From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index.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.

Also called ZAREAH and ZOREAH

A city of the tribe of Dan or possibly the tribe of Judah

• Joshua 15:33 These were in the foothills: Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,
• Joshua 19:41 The territory of their inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,

The city of Samson

• Judges 13:2 Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.
• Judges 13:24–25 So the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The boy grew, and the LORD blessed him. And the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him at Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
• Judges 16:31 Then Samson’s brothers and his father’s family came down, carried him back, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. And he had judged Israel twenty years.

Representatives of the tribe of Dan sent from, to spy out the land with a view to its conquest

• Judges 18 In those days there was no king in Israel, and the tribe of the Danites was looking for territory to occupy. For up to that time they had not come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel. So the Danites sent out five men from their clans, men of valor from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the l… (whole chapter)

Fortified by Rehoboam

• 2 Chronicles 11:10 Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, the fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin.

Re-populated after the captivity

• Nehemiah 11:29 in En-rimmon, Zorah, Jarmuth,