Judges 16:31
Hebrew Text— Judges 16:31Then 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.
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Yahweh’s Spirit came on him, and he judged Israel; and he went out to war, and Yahweh delivered Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. His hand prevailed against Cushan Rishathaim.
The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
They went up and encamped in Kiriath Jearim in Judah. Therefore they call that place Mahaneh Dan to this day. Behold, it is behind Kiriath Jearim.
In the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,
Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck thirty men of them. He took their plunder, then gave the changes of clothing to those who declared the riddle. His anger burned, and he went up to his father’s house.
He judged Israel twenty years in the days of the Philistines.
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.
There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and childless.
Yahweh’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
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.
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.
The family of the Danites set out from Zorah and Eshtaol with six hundred men armed with weapons of war.
Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
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.
Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
“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.”
The border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh,
But Yahweh’s Spirit came on Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered together to follow him.
Then Yahweh’s Spirit came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon.
for, behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son. No razor shall come on his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb. He shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”
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.
God’s Spirit came mightily on Saul when he heard those words, and his anger burned hot.
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.
Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
Then the Spirit came on Amasai, who was chief of the thirty, and he said, “We are yours, David, and on your side, you son of Jesse. Peace, peace be to you, and peace be to your helpers; for your God helps you.” Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.
Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and in Benjamin.
in En Rimmon, in Zorah, in Jarmuth,
Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.
The Spirit entered into me when he spoke to me, and set me on my feet; and I heard him who spoke to me.
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.
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.
What more shall I say? For the time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,
Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the middle of his brothers. Then Yahweh’s Spirit came mightily on David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.
The families of Kiriath Jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.