Judges 13
13Some time later, the Israelites again practiced what the Lord considered to be evil, so the Lord handed them over into the domination of the Philistines for 40 years.H1121H3478H6213H7451H3254H5869H3068H3068H5414H3027H6430H705H81412There was one man from Zorah, from the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. Since his wife was infertile, she hadn't borne children.H259H376H6881H4940H1839H8034H4495H802H6135H32053One day the angel of the presentedhimselftothewoman."Hello!"hegreeted her. "Though you are infertile at this time and haven't borne a child, you're about to conceive and give birth to a son.H4397H3068H7200H802H559H6135H3205H2029H3205H11214So be sure that you don't drink wine or anything intoxicating, and don't eat anything uncleanH8104H8354H3196H7941H398H29315because - surprise! - you're going to conceive and give birth to a son! Don't put a razor to his head, because the young man will be a Nazarite, dedicated to God from inside the womb. He will begin to deliver Israel from domination by the Philistines."H2030H3205H1121H4177H5927H7218H5288H5139H430H990H2490H3467H3478H3027H64306Then the woman went to tell her husband. She said, "A man of God appeared to me. He looked like what an angel of God would look like - very frightening. I didn't ask him where he had come from and he didn't tell me his name.H802H935H559H376H559H376H430H935H4758H4758H4397H430H3966H3372H7592H5046H80347He told me, 'Surprise! - you're going to conceive and give birth to a son!' and as for you, 'Be sure that you don't drink wine or anything intoxicating, and don't eat anything unclean,' 'because the young man will be a Nazarite dedicated to God from inside the womb' until the day he dies."H559H2030H3205H1121H7941H3196H8354H398H2932H5288H5139H430H990H3117H41948So Manoah prayed to the Lord, "Please, Lord, have the man of God whom you sent before come again so he can instruct us what to do on behalf of the child who is to be born."H4495H6279H3068H559H994H136H4994H376H430H7971H935H3384H6213H5288H32059God listened to Manoah's request, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she was sitting out in the pasture. But her husband Manoah wasn't with her,H430H8085H6963H4495H4397H430H935H802H3427H7704H4495H37610so the woman ran quickly to tell her husband, "Look! The man who came the other day appeared to me!"H802H4116H7323H5046H376H559H376H7200H935H311711So Manoah got up quickly and followed his wife, and when he came to the man he said to him, "Are you the man who spoke to my wife?" He replied, "I am the same one."H4495H6965H3212H310H802H935H376H559H376H1696H802H55912Manoah asked, "Now, when what you've said occurs, what is to be the young man's way of life and work?"H4495H559H1697H935H4941H5288H463913The angel of the Lord replied to Manoah, "Just have your wife be careful to carry out everything that I told her.H4397H3068H559H4495H559H802H810414She must not consume anything extracted from grape vines, including wine or anything intoxicating, and she must not eat anything unclean, doing everything that I commissioned her to do."H398H3318H1612H8354H3196H7941H398H2932H6680H810415Manoah responded to the angel of the Lord, "Please, let us detain you while we prepare a young goat for you."H4495H559H4397H3068H6113H6213H1423H5795H644016The angel of the Lord answered Manoah, "If you detain me, I won't be eating your food, but if you prepare a burnt offering, you'll be making a sacrifice to the Lord." The angel of the Lord said this because Manoah didn't know that he was the angel of the Lord.H4397H3068H559H4495H6113H398H3899H518H6213H5930H5927H3068H4495H3045H4397H306817Manoah asked the angel of the Lord, "What's your name, because when what you've said happens, we'll glorify you?"H4495H559H4397H3068H8034H1697H935H351318The angel of the Lord answered him, "Why are you asking this about my name?It's 'Wonderful.'"13H4397H3068H559H7592H8034H6383H638319So Manoah prepared a young goat and a grain offering and offered it on a boulder to the Lord, who kept on performing miracles while Manoah and his wife watched continuously.H4495H3947H1423H5795H4503H5927H6697H3068H6213H6381H4495H802H720020When the burnt offering was engulfed in flames that sprang up from the altar toward heaven, the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame that came from the altar. When Manoah and his wife observed this, they collapsed on their faces to the ground.H3851H5927H8064H4196H4397H3068H5927H3851H4196H4495H802H7200H5307H6440H77621The angel of the Lord did not appear again to Manoah or to his wife, and then Manoah knew confidently that the visitor had been the angel of the Lord.H4397H3068H3254H7200H4495H802H4495H3045H4397H306822Then Manoah said to his wife, "We're going to die for sure, because we've seen God!"H4495H559H802H4191H4191H7200H43023But his wife replied to him, "If the Lord had intended to kill us, he wouldn't have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from us, he wouldn't have shown us all these things, and he wouldn't have permitted us to hear things like this, now would he?"H802H559H3863H3068H2654H4191H3947H5930H4503H3027H7200H6256H8085H206324Later on, the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The child grew strong and the Lord blessed him. 25Then the Spirit of the Lord began to rouse him where the tribe of Dan was encamped, between Zorah and Eshtaol.H802H3205H1121H7121H8034H8123H5288H1431H3068H1288
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