There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had borne no children.

And the Spirit of the Lord began to stir him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

Then his brothers and all his father’s household came down, took him, brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. Thus he had judged Israel twenty years.

So the sons of Dan sent from their family five men out of their whole number, valiant men from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it; and they said to them, “Go, search the land.” And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

When they came back to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers said to them, “What do you report?”

Then from the family of the Danites, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, six hundred men armed with weapons of war set out.