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Judges 13
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- And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight
of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines
forty years.
- 2
- And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of
the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.
- 3
- And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and
said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt
conceive, and bear a son.
- 4
- Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine
nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
- 5
- For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no
razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from
the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the
Philistines.
- 6
- Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man
of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel
of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me
his name:
- 7
- But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and
bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean
thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of
his death.
- 8
- Then Manoah intreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let
the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we
shall do unto the child that shall be born.
- 9
- And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel
of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her
husband was not with her.
- 10
- And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her
husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came
unto me the other day.
- 11
- And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to
the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And
he said, I am.
- 12
- And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How
shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?
- 13
- And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all that
I said unto the woman let her beware.
- 14
- She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine,
neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all
that I commanded her let her observe.
- 15
- And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee,
let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.
- 16
- And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou
detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt
offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an
angel of the LORD.
- 17
- And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy
name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?
- 18
- And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou
thus after my name, seeing it is secret?
- 19
- So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered
it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wonderously; and Manoah and
his wife looked on.
- 20
- For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward
heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of
the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to
the ground.
- 21
- But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah
and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD.
- 22
- And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die,
because we have seen God.
- 23
- But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to
kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at
our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at
this time have told us such things as these.
- 24
- And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson:
and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.
- 25
- And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in
the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
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