Eshtemoa

Eshtemoa, meaning obedience or "'place where prayer is heard",[1] was an ancient city in the Judaean Mountains, mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible.

Eshtemoa was an ancient city in the Judaean Mountains, mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible.

It is later mentioned in the 1 Samuel as one of the cities that received spoils following king David's victory over the Amalekites at Ziklag.

[7][4] Four seven-branched menorahs were discovered carved onto door lintels and one of them is displayed in Jerusalem's Rockefeller Museum.

[8] In 1971, five pottery jars dated to the 9th-8th centuries BCE were found in as-Samu', bearing inscriptions written in the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet.

Eshtemoa synagogue , an ancient Jewish synagogue found a as-Samu' and dated to the 4th–5th century CE