Eshtaol
City
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.
Named in 7 verses
- Joshua 15:33 In the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,
- Joshua 19:41 The border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh,
- Judges 13:25 Yahweh’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
- 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 Mano
- Judges 18:2 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
- Judges 18:8 They came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol; and their brothers asked them, “What do you say?”
- Judges 18:11 The family of the Danites set out from Zorah and Eshtaol with six hundred men armed with weapons of war.