This document is about Etam (Judah_Region). For other homonyms, please refer to the Etam document. A city of the tribe of Judah. The region where Samson stayed after setting fire to the fields of the Philistines.
Judges 15:4When he had set the torches on fire, he let them go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and burned up both the shocks and the standing grain, and also the olive groves.Judges 15:5Then the Philistines) said, “Who has done this?” They said, “Samson), the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” The Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire.Judges 15:6Samson said to them, “If you behave like this, surely I will take revenge on you, and after that I will cease.”Judges 15:7He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cave in Etam’s rock.Judges 15:8Then the Philistines went up, encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.Judges 15:9The men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he has done to us.”Judges 15:10Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in Etam’s rock, and said to Samson), “Don’t you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” He said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”Judges 15:11They said to him, “We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines.” Samson) said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.”
르호보암은 이 지역에 방비하는 성읍을 쌓았다.
2 Chronicles 11:5He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,2 Chronicles 11:6Beth Zur, Soco, Adullam,2 Chronicles 11:7Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,2 Chronicles 11:8Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,2 Chronicles 11:9Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and in Benjamin.2 Chronicles 11:10He fortified the strongholds, and put captains in them, and stores of food, oil and wine.