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Zareah (Zorah)

Samson's hometown, better known as Zorah, on the border of Judah and Dan. The angel of the Lord told Manoah's wife there that she would have a son, and Samson was buried between Zorah and Eshtaol.

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Samson's hometown, better known as Zorah, on the border of Judah and Dan. The angel of the Lord told Manoah's wife there that she would have a son, and Samson was buried between Zorah and Eshtaol.

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Zareah, better known as Zorah, was a town on the border of Judah and Dan and the hometown of Samson. It was there that the angel of the Lord announced his birth to Manoah's wife, and the Spirit of the Lord began to stir him between Zorah and Eshtaol. Danite spies set out from Zorah to scout territory for their tribe's migration north, and Samson was buried between Zorah and Eshtaol in his father's tomb.

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Where it appears
  • Joshua 15:33
  • Joshua 19:41
  • Judges 13:2
  • Judges 13:25
  • Judges 16:31
  • Judges 18:2
  • Judges 18:8
  • Judges 18:11
  • 2 Chronicles 11:10
  • Nehemiah 11:29

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