And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.
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Gill's Exposition
And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites,.... Of the tribe of Dan, in which tribe Zorah was, and seems to have lain both on the borders of Judah and Dan, Jos 15:33; See Gill…
Barnes' Notes
Zorah - See the marginal reference. His wife was barren - To mark more distinctly the high providential destiny of the child that was eventually born. Compare the similar circumstances of the birth of…
The first verse gives us a short account, such as we have too often met with already, of the great distress that Israel was in, which gave occasion for the raising up of a deliverer. They did evil, as…
Cambridge Bible
Zorah Jdg 13:13; Jdg 16:31; Jdg 18:2; Jdg 18:8; Jdg 18:11, usually mentioned with Eshtaol; in Jos 19:41 counted as Danite, in ib.Jos 15:33 as belonging to Judah, which later on absorbed the Danite…
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