Saturday, October 24, 2009

Samson's (Shimshon) Tomb-Tel Tzora/Zorah.

"30 And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with [all his] might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that [were] therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than [they] which he slew in his life. 31 Then his brethren 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 burying place of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years" (Judges 16:30-31).

Here you can see two large blue painted gravestones. The northern gravestone commemorates Samson's tomb, and the southern gravestone is for Manoach, his father. Near the tombs is a small wooden building, which has a cupboard with holy books, candles and basic kitchen utensils.

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