Reference: Zorah
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A city of Danites within the limits of Judah, 2Ch 11:12, called also Zoreah, Jos 15:33; 19:40. Samson was a Zorite, or Zorathite, Jg 13:2,25; 1Ch 2:54; 4:2. It is now recognized in a secluded mountain village called Surah, on the edge of the hills north of Beth-shemesh. The road followed by Samson in going to Timnath leads down through rocky gorges, very likely to be haunted by wild beasts. It was here that he slew the lion, without the help of any weapon, Jg 14:5-7.
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The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the sons of Dan according to their families.
And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. And his wife was barren and did not bear.
And the Spirit of Jehovah began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
And Samson and his father and his mother went down to Timnath. And they came to the vineyards of Timnath. And, behold, a young lion roared to meet him. And the Spirit of Jehovah came mightily upon him, and he tore it as he would have torn a kid; and nothing was in his hand. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done. read more. And he went down and talked with the woman. And she pleased Samson very much.
And he put in each separate city shields and spears, and made them very strong, and Judah and Benjamin were his.
Easton
place of wasps, a town in the low country of Judah, afterwards given to Dan (Jos 19:41; Jg 18:2), probably the same as Zoreah (Jos 15:33). This was Samson's birthplace (Jg 13:2,25), and near it he found a grave (Jg 16:31). It was situated on the crest of a hill overlooking the valley of Sorek, and was fortified by Rehoboam (2Ch 11:10). It has been identified with Sur'ah, in the Wady Surar, 8 miles west of Jerusalem. It is noticed on monuments in the fifteenth century B.C. as attacked by the Abiri or Hebrews.
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And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. And his wife was barren and did not bear.
And the Spirit of Jehovah began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
Then 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 burying-place of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.
And the sons of Dan sent from their family five men from their borders, men of war, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it. And they said to them, Go, search the land. And when they came to Mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, they stayed there.
and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin, fortified cities.
Fausets
ZORAH or ZOREAH. Jos 15:33. Colonized by Kirjath Jearim (1Ch 2:53; 4:2). Now Sur'ah: ten Roman miles from Eleutheropolis toward Nicopolis. Originally of Judah; in the shephelah or low hills (Jos 15:33). Subsequently assigned to Dan (Jos 19:40) as a suitable border fortress, just below the brow of a sharp conical tell at the shoulder of the ranges which form the northern side of the wady Ghurab. Manoah's residence (Jg 13:2,25) and Samson's birthplace was between Zorah and Eshtaol.
Possibly Manoah commanded the military post at "the camp of Dan" (the place of encampment of the Danite emigrants: Jg 18:8; 11-12) between Zorah and Eshtaol; this post was a check on the Philistines, in force at Timnath three miles off (Jg 14:1-4; 15:6). Here was the family burial place (Jg 16:31). The charge that Samson was not to drink wine nor strong drink, nor eat what came of the vine, was the severer test of faith because Zorah was famous for its vines; the valley of Sorek and the Philistine plain generally abounded in choice vines (Jg 15:5; 16:4; Hebrew Ge 49:11; Isa 5:2; Jer 2:21). Fortified by Rehoboam as being at the entrance of the valley, which is one inlet from the great lowland (2Ch 11:10); reinhabited by the men of Judah after the return from Babylon. (Ne 11:29 ZAREAH.)
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Binding his foal to the vine, and his ass's colt to the choice vine, he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes.
The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the sons of Dan according to their families.
And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. And his wife was barren and did not bear.
And the Spirit of Jehovah began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. And he came up and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines. And now get her for me for a wife. read more. And his father and his mother said to him, Is there no woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines? And Samson said to his father, Get her for me, for she pleases me very much. But his father and his mother did not know that it was from Jehovah, that He was looking for an occasion against the Philistines. For at that time the Philistines had the rule over Israel.
And he set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and also the standing grain, with the vineyards and olives. And the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they answered, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.
And it happened afterwards, he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
Then 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 burying-place of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.
And they came to their brothers, to Zorah and Eshtaol. And their brothers said to them, What do you say?
And the families of Kirjath-jearim were the Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites. From them came the Zareathites, and the Eshtaulites.
And Reaiah the son of Shobal fathered Jahath. And Jahath fathered Ahumai, and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.
and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin, fortified cities.
And He fenced it, and gathered out the stones of it, and planted it with choice vines, and built a tower in its midst, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and He looked for it to produce grapes. And it produced wild grapes.
Yet I planted you a noble vine, wholly a true seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate shoots of an alien vine to Me?
Hastings
A town allotted to Judah, according to Jos 15:33; but elsewhere spoken of as Danite (Jos 19:41; Jg 18:2-3,11); specially noted as the home of Samson (Jg 13:2,25), who was buried between Zorah and Eshtaol (Jg 16:21). It was fortified by Rehoboam (2Ch 11:10), and is mentioned in Ne 11:29 as peopled by Judahites after the Captivity. The gentilic name Zorathites occurs in 1Ch 2:52; 4:2 and prob. 1Ch 2:54 (where read Zorathites for Zorites). Zorah is the modern Sur'ah on the northern side of W
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And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. And his wife was barren and did not bear.
And the Spirit of Jehovah began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
And the Philistines took him and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass. And he ground in the prison house.
And the sons of Dan sent from their family five men from their borders, men of war, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it. And they said to them, Go, search the land. And when they came to Mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, they stayed there. When they were at the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite. And they turned in there, and said to him, Who brought you here? And what are you doing in this place? And what have you here?
And six hundred men of the family of the Danites moved from there, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, girded with weapons of war.
And Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim had sons: Haroeh, half of the Manahethites.
The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Joab, and half the Manahethites, the Zorites.
And Reaiah the son of Shobal fathered Jahath. And Jahath fathered Ahumai, and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.
and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin, fortified cities.
Morish
Zo'rah Zareah, Za'reah Zoreah. Zo'reah
City in the west of Judah, but reckoned to Dan, on the Philistine frontier: it was the birth-place of Samson, and he was buried in its neighbourhood. Jos 15:33; 19:41; Jg 13:2,25; 16:31; 8/2/type/mkjv'>18:2,8,11; 2Ch 11:10; Ne 11:29. Identified with Surah, 31 47' N, 34 59' E.
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And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. And his wife was barren and did not bear.
And the Spirit of Jehovah began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
Then 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 burying-place of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.
And the sons of Dan sent from their family five men from their borders, men of war, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it. And they said to them, Go, search the land. And when they came to Mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, they stayed there.
And they came to their brothers, to Zorah and Eshtaol. And their brothers said to them, What do you say?
And six hundred men of the family of the Danites moved from there, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, girded with weapons of war.
Smith
Zo'rah
(hornet), a town in the allotment of the tribe of Dan,
It is previously mentioned ch.
in the catalogue of Judah, among the places in the district of the Shefelah (Authorized Version "Zoreah"), It was the residence of Manoah and the native place of Samson. It is mentioned among the places fortified by Rehoboam.
It is perhaps identical with the modern village of Sur'ah.
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and Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin, fortified cities.