Judges 13:2

Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

The border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh,

Yahweh’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he answered them, because they put their trust in him.

He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.

So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he granted our request.

By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.

Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, including Jericho.” They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.

In the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,

He judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”

Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.

He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.

God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said to them, “Go up this way by the South, and go up into the hill country.

They came to the valley of Eshcol, and cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bore it on a staff between two. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs.

The border of the children of Dan went out beyond them; for the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and lived therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their forefather.

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.

The family of the Danites set out from Zorah and Eshtaol with six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image; and the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

They took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword; then they burned the city with fire.

Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,

Now king David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t keep warm.

The families of Kiriath Jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.

But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.

Sarai was barren. She had no child.

Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be named through Isaac.

Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

The son of Dan: Hushim.

“Dan will judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

About Dan he said, “Dan is a lion’s cub that leaps out of Bashan.”

Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. Yahweh said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.

The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (The name of the city before that was Luz.)

Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he tore him as he would have torn a young goat with his bare hands, but he didn’t tell his father or his mother what he had done.

He found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, put out his hand, took it, and struck a thousand men with it.

There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.

The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land!” They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

They came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol; and their brothers asked them, “What do you say?”

He had two wives. The name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

She vowed a vow, and said, “Yahweh of Armies, if you will indeed look at the affliction of your servant and remember me, and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a boy, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and no razor shall come on his head.”

I prayed for this child, and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.

David’s two wives were taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

He said, “What then is to be done for her?” Gehazi answered, “Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old.”

These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath Jearim,

Reaiah the son of Shobal became the father of Jahath; and Jahath became the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.

Of the Danites who could set the battle in array: twenty-eight thousand six hundred.

But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, “Do you think that David honors your father, in that he has sent comforters to you? Haven’t his servants come to you to search, to overthrow, and to spy out the land?”

Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and in Benjamin.

in En Rimmon, in Zorah, in Jarmuth,

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.

But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

Zacharias said to the angel, “How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.”

Behold, Elizabeth your relative also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.