There was a man named Manoah from Zorah, from the Danite tribe. His wife was infertile and childless.

The Lord's spirit began to control him in Mahaneh Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.

His brothers and all his family went down and brought him back. They buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had led Israel for twenty years.

The Danites sent out from their whole tribe five representatives, capable men from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. They said to them, "Go, explore the land." They came to the Ephraimite hill country and spent the night at Micah's house.

When the Danites returned to their tribe in Zorah and Eshtaol, their kinsmen asked them, "How did it go?"

So six hundred Danites, fully armed, set out from Zorah and Eshtaol.