Eshtaol
Eshtaol, a city allotted to Judah and Dan, was the hometown of Samson and the starting point of the Danite migration.
The name Eshtaol means “a strong woman”
PlaceOld Testament3 books8 verses
Summary
A location first mentioned at Joshua 15:33; referred to as Eshtaol (אֶשְׁתָּאוֹל) or Eshtaolite (אֶשְׁתָּאֻלִי).
Location
- Identified as
- Khirbet Deir Shubeib
- Certainty
- Possible (34% of scholarship) · 4 other possible locations
- Coordinates
- 31.798° N, 34.986° E
Glossary entries
Alternative names
- אֶשְׁתָּאוֹלEshtaol
- אֶשְׁתָּאֻלִיEshtaolite
Mentions
- Joshua 15:33אֶשְׁתָּאוֹל · EshtaolThese were in the foothills: Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,
- Joshua 19:41אֶשְׁתָּאוֹל · EshtaolThe territory of their inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,
- Judges 13:25אֶשְׁתָּאוֹל · EshtaolAnd the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him at Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
- Judges 16:31אֶשְׁתָּאוֹל · EshtaolThen Samson’s brothers and his father’s family came down, carried him back, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. And he had judged Israel twenty years.
- Judges 18:2אֶשְׁתָּאוֹל · EshtaolSo the Danites sent out five men from their clans, men of valor from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. “Go and explore the land,” they told them. The men entered the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah, where they spent the night.
- Judges 18:8אֶשְׁתָּאוֹל · EshtaolWhen the men returned to Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers asked them, “What did you find?”
- Judges 18:11אֶשְׁתָּאוֹל · EshtaolSo six hundred Danites departed from Zorah and Eshtaol, armed with weapons of war.
- 1 Chronicles 2:53אֶשְׁתָּאֻלִי · Eshtaolite…and the clans of Kiriath-jearim—the Ithrites, Puthites, Shumathites, and Mishraites. From these descended the Zorathites and Eshtaolites.