Chapter 13
¹ And the children of Israel yet again committed iniquity before the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
Jdg 13:1
² And there was a man of Zorah, of the family of the kindred of Dan, and his name was Manoah, and his wife was barren, and bore not. ³ And an angel of the Lord appeared to the woman, and said to her, Behold, thou art barren and hast not born; yet thou shalt conceive a son. ⁴ And now be very cautious, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat no unclean thing; ⁵ for behold, thou art with child, and shalt bring forth a son; and there shall come no razor upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.
Jdg 13:2-5
⁶ And the woman went in, and spoke to her husband, saying, A man of God came to me, and his appearance [was as] of an angel of God, very dreadful; and I did not ask him whence he was, and he did not tell me his name. ⁷ And he said to me, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bring forth a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat no unclean thing; for the child shall be holy to God from the womb until the day of his death.
Jdg 13:6-7
⁸ And Manoah prayed to the Lord and said, I pray thee, O Lord my Lord, [concerning] the man of God whom thou sentest; let him now come to us once more, and teach us what we shall do to the child about to be born.
Jdg 13:8
⁹ And the Lord heard the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came yet again to the woman; and she sat in the field, and Manoah her husband was not with her. ¹⁰ And the woman hastened, and ran, and brought word to her husband, and said to him, Behold the man who came in [the other] day to me has appeared to me.
Jdg 13:9-10
¹¹ And Manoah arose and followed his wife, and came to the man, and said to him, Art thou the man that spoke to the woman? and the angel said, I [am]. ¹² And Manoah said, Now shall [thy] word come to pass: what shall be the ordering of the child, and our dealings with him? ¹³ And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, Of all things concerning which I spoke to the woman, she shall beware. ¹⁴ She shall eat of nothing that comes of the vine yielding wine, and let her not drink wine or strong liquor, and let her not eat anything unclean: all things that I have charged her she shall observe.
Jdg 13:11-14
¹⁵ And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, Let us detain thee here, and prepare before thee a kid of the goats. ¹⁶ And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, If thou shouldest detain me, I will not eat of thy bread; and if thou wouldest offer a whole burnt offering, to the Lord thou shalt offer it: for Manoah knew not that he [was] an angel of the Lord. ¹⁷ And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, What [is] thy name, that [when] thy word shall come to pass, we may glorify thee? ¹⁸ And the angel of the Lord said to him, Why dost thou thus ask after my name; whereas it is wonderful? ¹⁹ And Manoah took a kid of the goats and its meat offering, and offered it on the rock to the Lord; and [the angel] wrought a distinct work, and Manoah and his wife were looking on. ²⁰ And it came to pass when the flame went up above the altar toward heaven, that the angel of the Lord went up in the flame; and Manoah and his wife were looking, and they fell upon their face to the earth. ²¹ And the angel appeared no more to Manoah and to his wife: then Manoah knew that this [was] an angel of the Lord. ²² And Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God. ²³ But his wife said to him, If the Lord were pleased to slay us, he would not have received of our hand a whole burnt offering and a meat offering; and he would not have shown us all these things, neither would he have caused us to hear all these things as at this time.
Jdg 13:15-23