Rock of Etam
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Rock of Etam is mentioned as a rock with the cave where Samson
Samson
Samson, Shimshon ; Shamshoun or Sampson is the third to last of the Judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Tanakh ....

 hid after smiting the Philistines
Philistines
Philistines , Pleshet or Peleset, were a people who occupied the southern coast of Canaan at the beginning of the Iron Age . According to the Bible, they ruled the five city-states of Gaza, Askelon, Ashdod, Ekron and Gath, from the Wadi Gaza in the south to the Yarqon River in the north, but with...

 "hip and thigh with a great slaughter" (Jdg 15:8,11). It was in Judah but apparently in the low hill country (same place as the town of Etam
Etam (biblical town)
Etam is mentioned in Septuagint along with Teqoa, Bethlehem and Phagor . In 2 Chronicles 11:6 it occurs, between Bethlehem and Teqoa, as one of the cities built "for defense in Judah" by Rehoboam...

) . The rocky hill on which lies the village of Beit `Atab, near Sur`ah (Zorah), was suggested by Conder, but unless the rock of Etam is really identical with the town of Etam, which is quite possible, the cavern known as `Arak Isma`in, described by Hanauer (PEFS, 1886, 25), suits the requirements of the story better.
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