What happened at Zorah.
Place of wasps, a town in the low country of Judah, afterwards given to Dan (Josh. 19:41; Judg. 18:2), probably the same as Zoreah (Josh. 15:33). This was Samson’s birthplace (Judg. 13:2, 25), and near it he found a grave (16:31). It was situated on the crest of a hill overlooking the valley of Sorek, and was fortified by Rehoboam (2 Chr. 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.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).
All 11 verses that name Zorah.
Joshua 2
- Joshua 15:33And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,
- Joshua 19:41And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh,
Judges 6
- Judges 13:2And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.
- Judges 13:25And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
- Judges 16:31Then his brethren 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 buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.
- Judges 18:2And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.
- Judges 18:8And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye?
- Judges 18:11And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of war.
1 Chronicles 1
- 1 Chronicles 2:53And the families of Kirjath-jearim; the Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zareathites, and the Eshtaulites.
2 Chronicles 1
- 2 Chronicles 11:10And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities.
Nehemiah 1