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Zorah

Now Tel Tzora.

location: likely

Named in 9 tagged verses in 3 books, first at Joshua 15:33.

Kind
Settlement
Coordinates
31.77° N, 34.99° E
Nearest
Kiriath-arim 0.9 km
People
2 people
Events
2 events
Tagged in
9 verses

Map

Zorah is the filled marker at the centre; the 10 nearest places with a page are around it. The position follows OpenBible.info, which grades it a likely location.

People

People named in the same verses as Zorah, most often first.

Events

2 events told in verses that name Zorah, in the order of the traditional chronology. Years are traditional (Jones).

  1. 1120 BCJudgeship of Samson1 shared verse
  2. 1100 BCSampson destroys Temple of Dagon1 shared verse

Mentions

9 tagged verses in 3 books. Select a book to read its verses.

  1. Joshua2
  2. Judges6
  3. 2 Chronicles1

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Every verse

All 9 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Joshua2 verses
  1. 15:33

    These were in the foothills: Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,

  2. 19:41

    The territory of their inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,

Judges6 verses
  1. 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.

  2. 13:25

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

  3. 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.

  4. 18:2

    So the Danites sent out five men from their clans, men of valor from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. “Go and explore the land,” they told them. The men entered the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah, where they spent the night.

  5. 18:8

    When the men returned to Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers asked them, “What did you find?”

  6. 18:11

    So six hundred Danites departed from Zorah and Eshtaol, armed with weapons of war.

2 Chronicles1 verse
  1. 11:10

    Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, the fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin.

Nearby

The 10 places with a page nearest to Zorah, by straight-line distance.

  1. Kiriath-arim0.9 km
  2. Mahaneh-dan1.9 km
  3. Eshtaol2.6 km
  4. Beth-shemesh2.8 km
  5. En-hakkore3.2 km
  6. Elonbeth-hanan3.3 km
  7. En-gannim3.6 km
  8. Etam4.0 km
  9. Shaaraim5.9 km
  10. Ashnah6.1 km