³³ In the Judean foothills:^[a] Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,

³¹ Then his brothers and his father’s whole family came down, carried him back, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. So he judged Israel twenty years.

² So the Danites sent out five brave men^(A) from all their clans, from Zorah and Eshtaol,^(B) to scout^(C) out the land and explore it. They told them, “Go and explore the land.”

They came to the hill country of Ephraim as far as the home of Micah and spent the night there.

⁸ When the men went back to their relatives at Zorah and Eshtaol,^(A) their relatives asked them, “What did you find out?”

¹¹ Six hundred Danites departed from Zorah and Eshtaol armed with weapons of war.

⁵³ and the families of Kiriath-jearim—the Ithrites, Puthites, Shumathites, and Mishraites. The Zorathites and Eshtaolites descended from these.