31 Then his brothers and his father’s whole family went down to get him. They brought him back and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah(A) his father. He had led[a](B) Israel twenty years.(C)

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  1. Judges 16:31 Traditionally judged

20 Samson led[a] Israel for twenty years(A) in the days of the Philistines.

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  1. Judges 15:20 Traditionally judged

25 and the Spirit of the Lord began to stir(A) him while he was in Mahaneh Dan,(B) between Zorah and Eshtaol.

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A certain man of Zorah,(A) named Manoah,(B) from the clan of the Danites,(C) had a wife who was childless,(D) unable to give birth.

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39 He was accompanied by Nicodemus,(A) the man who earlier had visited Jesus at night. Nicodemus brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds.[a] 40 Taking Jesus’ body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen.(B) This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs.(C) 41 At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid. 42 Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation(D) and since the tomb was nearby,(E) they laid Jesus there.

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  1. John 19:39 Or about 34 kilograms

41 The territory of their inheritance included:

Zorah, Eshtaol,(A) Ir Shemesh,

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