Eshtaol
Cityaka Eshtaol
Narrow pass or recess, a town (Josh. 15:33) in the low country, the She-phelah of Judah. It was allotted to the tribe of Dan (Josh. 19:41), and was one of their strongholds. Here Samson spent his boyhood, and first began to show his mighty strength; and here he was buried in the burying-place of Manoah his father (Judg. 13:25; 16:31; 18:2, 8, 11, 12). It is identified with the modern Yeshua, on a hill 2 miles east of Zorah. Others, however, identify it with Kustul, east of Kirjath-jearim.
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Appears in Judges
Key verses
Judges 13:25
The Spirit of Yahweh began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
Judges 18:2
The children of Dan sent of their family five men from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said to them, “Go, explore the land!” They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
Joshua 15:33
In the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,
Joshua 19:41
The border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh,
Judges 16:31
Then his brothers 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 burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.
Judges 18:8
They came to their brothers to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brothers said to them, “What do you say?”