1. Judges 16:31 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What is significant about the location of Samson’s burial?

Judges 16:31 (ESV)

31 Then his brothers and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had judged Israel twenty years.

Somehow Samson’s family managed to retrieve his body from the rubble and bring him up and bury him where the Spirit of the Lord initially stirred him, between Zorah and Eshtaol, in the tomb of his father Manoah. It brings a type of closure to the account. Even though Samson spent most of his time in Philistine territory, and even dies there, he is buried in his father’s tomb.