Eshtaol
From God's Wiki, the Bible topic encyclopedia
| Type | settlement |
|---|---|
| Also called | Eshtaolites, Eshtaulites |
| Most likely | Khirbet Deir Shubeib (low confidence) |
| Coordinates | 31.798° N, 34.986° E |
| Mentioned in | 8 verses |
| First mention | Joshua 15:33 |
Eshtaol is a settlement named in 8 verses of the Bible. It is most likely identified with Khirbet Deir Shubeib (low confidence; 4 other proposals below).
Location
Where scholars place it, most confident first. Confidence is OpenBible.info's score from the sources it surveys; it is not this site's judgment.
| Identification | Confidence | Coordinates |
|---|---|---|
| Khirbet Deir Shubeib | low (34%) | 31.798° N, 34.986° E |
| Eshtaol | low (17%) | 31.781° N, 35.010° E |
| Artuf | very low (9%) | 31.767° N, 35.001° E |
| Khirbet Deir Abu Kabus | very low (6%) | 31.785° N, 35.010° E |
| Khirbet esh Sheikh Ibrahim | very low (2%) | 31.776° N, 35.016° E |
Verses
Joshua
- Joshua 15:33And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,These were in the foothills:
- Joshua 19:41And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir–shemesh,The territory of their inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,
Judges
- Judges 13:25And the Spirit of the Lord began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.And the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him at Mahaneh-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.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.
- 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.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.
- Judges 18:8And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye?When the men returned to Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers asked them, “What did you find?”
- 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.So six hundred Danites departed from Zorah and Eshtaol, armed with weapons of war.
1 Chronicles
- 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.Haroeh, half the Manahathites, and the clans of Kiriath-jearim—the Ithrites, Puthites, Shumathites, and Mishraites. From these descended the Zorathites and Eshtaolites.
Notes
- Locations from the OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- Verses are those where at least one of ten English translations names this place, per OpenBible.info.