Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
WEB
World English Bible
Again
the Israelites
did evil in the sight of the
LORD,
so
He
delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for
forty years.
The children
of
Israel
again
did that
which
was
evil in the sight of Yahweh;
and
Yahweh
delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
Now
there was a man from
Zorah named
Manoah
, from
the clan
of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had
no
children
.
There was a certain
man of
Zorah, of
the family
of the Danites, whose name
was
Manoah;
and
his
wife was barren ,
and didn't
bear
.
The angel of the
LORD
appeared to the woman and said to her, “It
is
true
that
you are barren and have
no
children
; but you will
conceive and give
birth
to
a son.
The angel of Yahweh
appeared to the woman ,
and said to her, See
now,
you are barren ,
and don't
bear
; but you shall
conceive ,
and bear
a son.
Now please be
careful
not
to
drink wine or
strong drink, and not
to
eat anything
unclean .
Now therefore
please beware
and
drink no
wine nor
strong drink, and don't
eat any
unclean thing:
For behold, you will
conceive and give
birth
to
a son .
And no razor shall come over
his head ,
because
the boy
will
be a Nazirite to God from the womb ,
and he will
begin the
deliverance
of
Israel from
the hand of the Philistines. ”
for ,
behold, you shall
conceive ,
and bear
a son ;
and no razor shall come on
his head ;
for
the child
shall
be a Nazirite to God from the womb :
and he shall
begin to
save
Israel out
of
the hand of the Philistines.
So
the woman went
and told her husband, “
A man of God came to me .
His appearance
was like the angel of God, exceedingly
awesome .
I did
not
ask him where
he came
from
, and
he
did not
tell me his name .
Then
the woman came
and told her husband, saying,
A man of God came to me ,
and
his face
was like the face
of
the
angel of God, very
awesome ;
and
I didn't
ask him whence
he was
, neither
did he
tell me his name :
But he said to me, ‘
Behold, you will
conceive and give
birth
to
a son .
Now ,
therefore,
do
not
drink wine or
strong drink, and do
not
eat anything
unclean ,
because
the boy
will
be a Nazirite to God from the womb until
the day of his death. ’”
but he said to me, Behold, you shall
conceive ,
and bear
a son ;
and
now drink no
wine nor
strong drink, and eat not
any
unclean thing;
for
the child
shall
be a Nazirite to God from the womb to
the day of his death.
Then Manoah prayed
to
the
LORD
, “Please
, O
Lord, let the man of God You sent
us
come to
us
again to teach us how
to raise
the boy
who is
to
be born. ”
Then Manoah entreated
Yahweh
, and
said
, Oh,
Lord, please
let the man of God whom
you did
send
come again to us,
and
teach us what
we
shall
do
to the child
who shall
be born.
And
God listened to the voice of Manoah ,
and the angel of God returned
to the woman as she was
sitting
in the field ;
but her husband Manoah
was
not
with her.
God listened to the voice of Manoah ;
and the angel of God came
again
to the woman as she sat
in the field :
but Manoah,
her husband ,
wasn't
with her.
The woman ran quickly
to
tell
her husband, “
Behold, the man who came to me the other day has
reappeared!”
The woman made
haste,
and
ran ,
and
told
her husband, and
said
to
him,
Behold, the man has
appeared
to
me,
who came to me the [
other ]
day .
So
Manoah got
up
and followed
his wife .
When
he
came to the man, he
asked
, “
Are you the man who spoke to my
wife
? ”
“I
am,”
he said.
Manoah arose,
and went
after
his wife ,
and
came to the man, and
said
to
him
, Are you the man who spoke to the
woman
? He said ,
I
am
.
Then
Manoah asked
, “When
your words come
to
pass,
what will
be the boy’s
rule
of life
and mission
? ”
Manoah said
, Now
let
your words happen:
what shall
be the ordering
of the
child,
and [how]
shall
we
do
to
him
?
So
the angel of the
LORD
answered
Manoah, “Your
wife
is
to
do
everything
I told
her.
The angel of Yahweh
said
to
Manoah, Of
all
that
I said
to
the
woman
let
her beware
.
She must
not eat anything that comes from
the vine, nor
drink any
wine or strong drink, nor eat anything
unclean .
She
must
do
everything
I have
commanded her. ”
She may
not eat of
anything that comes of
the vine, neither
let
her
drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any
unclean thing;
all
that
I commanded her let
her
observe
.
“Please
stay
here,”
Manoah said to the angel of the
LORD
, “and
we will
prepare
a young
goat
for you. ”
Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh
, I
pray
you,
let
us
detain
you,
that
we may
make
ready
a kid
for you.
And
the angel of the
LORD
replied
, “Even
if
I
stay
, I will
not
eat your food.
But
if you prepare
a burnt offering, offer it to the
LORD
. ”
For Manoah did
not
know that it
was the angel of the
LORD
.
The angel of Yahweh
said
to
Manoah
, Though
you
detain
me
, I won't
eat of
your bread;
and
if you will
make
ready
a burnt offering, you
must
offer it to Yahweh
. For Manoah didn't
know that he
was the angel of Yahweh
.
Then
Manoah said to the angel of the
LORD
, “
What is your name, so
that we may honor you when
your
word
comes
to
pass
? ”
Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh
, What is your name, that when
your
words
happen,
we may honor you?
“
Why do you ask my name, ”
said
the
angel
of
the
LORD,
“since
it is beyond
comprehension
? ”
The
angel
of
Yahweh
said
to
him,
Why do you ask after
my name, seeing
it is wonderful
?
Then
Manoah took a
young
goat
and
a
grain
offering and offered them
on a
rock to the LORD.
And as
Manoah and his wife looked on ,
the
LORD
did
a
marvelous
thing
.
So
Manoah took the
kid
with
the
meal-
offering ,
and offered it
on the
rock to Yahweh:
and
[
the angel]
did
wondrously,
and Manoah and his wife looked on.
When the flame went up from the altar to
the
sky
, the angel of the
LORD
ascended in the flame .
When
Manoah and his wife saw
this,
they fell facedown
to the ground.
For
it
happened,
when the flame went up toward
the
sky
from off
the altar, that
the angel of Yahweh
ascended in the flame of
the
altar:
and
Manoah and his wife looked
on;
and
they fell on
their
faces
to the ground.
And
when
the angel of the
LORD
did not
appear again
to Manoah and
his wife ,
Manoah realized
that it
had
been
the angel of the
LORD
.
But
the angel of Yahweh
did no
more
appear to Manoah or
to
his wife .
Then
Manoah knew
that he
was
the angel of Yahweh
.
“We
are
going
to
die,”
he
said to his wife, “for
we have seen God !”
Manoah
said to his wife, We shall
surely
die,
because
we
have seen God .
But his wife replied
, “
If the
LORD
had
intended
to kill us, He would
not
have accepted
the
burnt offering and the
grain
offering from
our hands
, nor
would He have shown us all these things or
spoken
to
us
this way
. ”
But his wife said
to
him
, If Yahweh
were
pleased
to kill us, he wouldn't
have received
a
burnt offering and a
meal-
offering at
our hand
, neither
would he have shown us all these things ,
nor
would
at
this time
have
told
such
things
as
these
.
So
the woman gave
birth
to
a son and named him Samson .
The boy
grew, and the
LORD
blessed him.
The woman bore
a son ,
and named him Samson :
and
the child
grew, and Yahweh
blessed him.
And
the Spirit of the
LORD
began to stir
him at
Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
The Spirit of Yahweh
began to move
him in
Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
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