Tribe of Judah 와
Tribe of Dan 경계의 지역으로 보인다. 여호수아 15장에는 유다지파에게, 여호수아 19장에는 단 지파에게 배분된 걸로 나온다.
The border of their inheritance was Zorah , Eshtaol , Irshemesh,
삼손 의 주요 거점으로 이 지역 근처에서 삼손이 있을 때에 하나님의 영의 감동을 받고 장지에 묻히기도 하였다.
Yahweh’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol .
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 Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.
이후 사사기 18장에서 단 지파 사람들이 새로운 정착지를 찾기위해 이곳에서 출발했다.
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 said to them, “Go, explore the land!” They came to the hill country of Ephraim , to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
They came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol ; and their brothers asked them, “What do you say?”
The family of the Danites set out from Zorah and Eshtaol with six hundred men armed with weapons of war.