The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000.
13 The Book of Judges
13The Birth of Samson | |
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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. |
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¶ And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Mano’ah; and his wife was barren, and bare not. |
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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. |
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Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing: |
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for, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite Num. 6.1-5 unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines. |
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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: |
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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. |
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¶ Then Mano’ah 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. |
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And God hearkened to the voice of Mano’ah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Mano’ah her husband was not with her. |
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And the woman made haste, and ran, and showed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day. |
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And Mano’ah 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. |
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And Mano’ah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him? |
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And the angel of the LORD said unto Mano’ah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware. |
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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. |
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¶ And Mano’ah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee. |
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And the angel of the LORD said unto Mano’ah, 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 Mano’ah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD. |
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And Mano’ah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honor? |
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And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret? |
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So Mano’ah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wondrously; and Mano’ah and his wife looked on. |
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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 Mano’ah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground. |
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¶ But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Mano’ah and to his wife. Then Mano’ah knew that he was an angel of the LORD. |
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And Mano’ah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God. |
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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 showed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these. |
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And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him. |
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And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshta’ol. |
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