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Eshtaol (Hebrew: אֶשְׁתָּאוֹל) is a moshav in central Israel, and a biblical location mentioned in the Books of Joshua and Judges and in the first Book of Chronicles. Located 6 km (4 mi) north of Beit Shemesh , [ 2 ] it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council .
Esthaol or Eshtaol, in Hebrew: אֶשְׁתָּאֹל (Eshṭa'ol), in Ancient Greek: Εσθαολ (Esthaol), is a town mentioned in the Bible. It corresponds to a locality near Sar'a , approximately 20 km west of Jerusalem .
Zorah was mentioned together with Ajalon in the Amarna letters as a city attacked by the Apiru. Zorah has been identified with the biblical Zoreah (Joshua 15:33), and is the birthplace of Samson. [2] Judges 13:2 states: "there was a certain man from Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah".
The kibbutz is named for the biblical village of Tzora, [2] which may have been a Canaanite town. [3] The name was taken from the Biblical Book of Judges (13:25): "And the spirit of the Lord began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol."
Judges 13 is the thirteenth chapter of the Book of Judges in the Old Testament or the Hebrew Bible. [1] According to Jewish tradition the book was attributed to the prophet Samuel, [2] [3] but modern scholars view it as part of the Deuteronomistic History, which spans in the books of Deuteronomy to 2 Kings, attributed to nationalistic and devotedly Yahwistic writers during the time of the ...
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According to the Book of Judges, prior to the Tribe of Dan occupying the land, the town was known as Laish (Judges 18:7, 14, 27–29), meaning lion, or rather lioness. [13] [14] Joshua 19:47, although telling the same story as Judges 18, names the city as Leshem, which makes the researchers consider it as being the same place. [13]