Zorah

Zorah is a settlement named in 11 verses of the Bible. It is most likely identified with Tel Tzora (high confidence).

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.

Verses

Joshua

• Joshua 15:33
  And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,These were in the foothills:
• Joshua 19:41
  And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir–shemesh,The territory of their inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,

Judges

• Judges 13:2
  And 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.Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.
• Judges 13:25
  And 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 16:31
  Then 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 18:2
  And 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 18:8
  And 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 18:11
  And 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 2:53
  And 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.

2 Chronicles

• 2 Chronicles 11:10
  And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities.Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, the fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin.

Nehemiah

• Nehemiah 11:29
  And at En–rimmon, and at Zareah, and at Jarmuth,in En-rimmon, Zorah, Jarmuth,

Notes

1. Locations from the OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
2. Verses are those where at least one of ten English translations names this place, per OpenBible.info.