Judges 13

¹And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 12:9Judg 6:1Rom 2:6Judg 2:11Judg 3:7Judg 10:6Judg 4:1Jer 13:23

²And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 19:41Gen 25:21Josh 15:33Luke 1:71 Sam 1:2-6Gen 16:1

³And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Luke 1:13Gen 18:10Luke 1:112 Kgs 4:16Judg 13:8Judg 2:1Judg 6:11-121 Sam 1:20Gen 17:16Luke 1:28-38

⁴Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Luke 1:15Judg 13:14Num 6:2-3Judg 13:7Acts 10:14Lev 11:27Lev 11:47

⁵For, 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Num 6:51 Sam 1:111 Chr 18:1Num 6:2-31 Sam 7:132 Sam 8:1

⁶Then 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: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 13:17-18Matt 28:3-41 Sam 9:6Rev 1:172 Kgs 4:9Acts 6:15Dan 10:11Dan 10:5Dan 8:17Deut 33:1

⁷But 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 13:4

⁸Then 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 9:6Job 34:32Prov 3:5-6

⁹And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 65:2Matt 7:7-11

¹⁰And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:John 1:41-42John 4:28-29

¹¹And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

¹²And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eph 6:4Prov 22:6Gen 18:19Prov 4:4

¹³And the angel of the Lord said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

¹⁴She 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 12:32John 2:52 Thess 3:4John 15:14Judg 13:4Judg 13:7Matt 28:20Num 6:4

¹⁵And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 18:3-5Judg 13:3Judg 6:18-19

¹⁶And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 13:23Judg 6:20Judg 6:26

¹⁷And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 32:29

¹⁸And the angel of the Lord said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 32:29Isa 9:6Judg 13:6

¹⁹So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the Lord: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 6:19-211 Kgs 18:30-38

²⁰For 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Lev 9:241 Chr 21:162 Kgs 2:11Ezek 1:28Matt 17:61 Chr 21:26Gen 17:3Heb 1:3

²¹But 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 6:22Hos 12:4-5Judg 13:16

²²And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 32:30Deut 5:26John 1:18Exod 33:20Isa 6:5John 5:37Deut 4:38Judg 6:22

²³But 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Cor 12:21Ps 25:14John 14:20John 15:15Ps 86:17Eccl 4:9-10Prov 3:32Gen 4:4-5John 14:23Ps 27:13

²⁴And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the Lord blessed him. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Luke 1:801 Sam 3:19Heb 11:32Luke 2:52

²⁵And the Spirit of the Lord began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 3:10John 3:34Josh 15:331 Sam 11:6Judg 11:29Judg 18:11-12Judg 6:34Matt 4:1