Jud 13:1 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.
Jud 13:2 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.
Jud 13:3 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.
Jud 13:4 Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink,
and eat not any unclean thing:
Jud 13:5 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.
Jud 13:6 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:
Jud 13:7 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.
Jud 13:8 Then Manoah entreated 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.
Jud 13:9 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.
Jud 13:10 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.
Jud 13:11 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.
Jud 13:12 And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order
the child, and how shall we do unto him?
Jud 13:13 And the angel of the Lord said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto
the woman let her beware.
Jud 13:14 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.
Jud 13:15 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.
Jud 13:16 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.
Jud 13:17 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?
Jud 13:18 And the angel of the Lord said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my
name, seeing it is secret?
Jud 13:19 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.
Jud 13:20 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.
Jud 13:21 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.
Jud 13:22 And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have
seen God.
Jud 13:23 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.
Jud 13:24 And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child
grew, and the Lord blessed him.
Jud 13:25 And the spirit of the Lord began to move him at times in the camp of
Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.