En-dor

En-dor ("spring of habitation") was a village in the territory of Manasseh, on the northern slope of the hill of Moreh near the Jezreel Valley (Joshua 17:11). It became infamous as the place where King Saul — terrified by the Philistine army at Mount Gilboa and unable to get any answer from God — disguised himself and traveled by night to consult a medium he had earlier outlawed (1 Samuel 28:7-25). The medium called up Samuel's spirit, who delivered the king's death sentence: "Tomorrow you and your sons will be with me." The next day, Saul and three of his sons died on Mount Gilboa, just a few miles southwest of En-dor. The town is also mentioned in Psalm 83:10 as the site where the kings of Midian "perished at En-dor and became dung for the ground" — likely a reference to Sisera's defeat by Barak nearby.