Judges 13:2

Geneva Bible (1560)

Then there was a man in Zorah of the familie of the Danites, named Manoah, whose wife was baren, and bare not.

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  • Josh 19:41 : 41 And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh,
  • Josh 15:33 : 33 In the lowe countrey were Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,
  • Luke 1:7 : 7 And they had no childe, because that Elisabet was barren: and both were well stricken in age.
  • 1 Sam 1:2-6 : 2 And he had two wiues: the name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. 3 And this man went vp out of his citie euery yeere, to worship and to sacrifice vnto the Lord of hostes in Shiloh, where were the two sonnes of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas Priests of the Lord. 4 And on a day, when Elkanah sacrificed, he gaue to Peninnah his wife and to all her sonnes and daughters portions, 5 But vnto Hannah he gaue a worthy portion: for he loued Hannah, and the Lorde had made her barren. 6 And her aduersarie vexed her sore, forasmuch as she vpbraided her, because the Lorde had made her barren.
  • Gen 16:1 : 1 Nowe Sarai Abrams wife bare him no children, and she had a maide an Egyptian, Hagar by name.
  • Gen 25:21 : 21 And Izhak prayed vuto the Lorde for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceiued,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 13:3-17
    15 verses
    87%

    3And the Angel of the Lorde appeared vnto the woman, and said vnto her, Beholde nowe, thou art baren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceiue, and beare a sonne.

    4And nowe therefore beware that thou drinke no wine, nor strong drinke, neither eate any vncleane thing.

    5For loe, thou shalt conceiue and beare a sonne, and no rasor shall come on his head: for the childe shall be a Nazarite vnto God from his birth: and he shall begin to saue Israel out of the handes of the Philistims.

    6Then the wife came, and tolde her husband, saying, A man of God came vnto me, and the facion of him was like the facion of the Angel of God exceeding feareful, but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name,

    7But he saide vnto me, Beholde, thou shalt conceiue, and beare a sonne, and nowe thou shalt drinke no wine, nor strong drinke, neither eate any vncleane thing: for the childe shalbe a Nazarite to God from his birth to the day of his death.

    8Then Manoah prayed to the Lorde and saide, I pray thee, my Lorde, Let the man of God, whome thou sentest, come againe nowe vnto vs, and teach vs what we shall doe vnto the child when he is borne.

    9And God heard the voyce of Manoah, and the Angel of God came againe vnto the wife, as she sate in the fielde, but Manoah her husbande was not with her.

    10And the wife made haste and ranne, and shewed her husbande and sayde vnto him, Behold, the man hath appeared vnto me, that came vnto me to day.

    11And Manoah arose & went after his wife, and came to the man, and saide vnto him, Art thou the man that spakest vnto the woman? and he said, Yea.

    12Then Manoah sayde, Nowe let thy saying come to passe: but howe shall we order the childe and doe vnto him?

    13And the Angell of the Lorde saide vnto Manoah, The woman must beware of all that I said vnto her.

    14She may eate of nothing that commeth of the vinetree: she shal not drinke wine nor strong drinke, nor eate any vncleane thing: let her obserue all that I haue commanded her.

    15Manoah then said vnto the Angell of the Lorde, I pray thee, let vs reteine thee, vntill we haue made readie a kid for thee.

    16And the Angel of the Lord said vnto Manoah, Though thou make me abide, I will not eate of thy bread, and if thou wilt make a burnt offring, offer it vnto the Lorde: for Manoah knewe not that it was an Angel of the Lorde.

    17Againe Manoah said vnto the Angell of the Lorde, What is thy name, that when thy saying is come to passe, we may honour thee?

  • Judg 13:19-25
    7 verses
    75%

    19Then Manoah tooke a kid with a meate offering, and offered it vpon a stone vnto the Lorde: and the Angell did wonderously, whiles Manoah and his wife looked on.

    20For when the flame came vp toward heauen from the altar, the Angel of the Lorde ascended vp in the flame of the altar, and Manoah and his wife behelde it, and fell on their faces vnto the grounde.

    21(So the Angel of the Lorde did no more appeare vnto Manoah and his wife.) Then Manoah knewe that it was an Angel of the Lord.

    22And Manoah said vnto his wife, We shal surely dye, because we haue seene God.

    23But his wife saide vnto him, If the Lorde woulde kill vs, he woulde not haue receiued a burnt offring, and a meate offring of our hands, neither would he haue shewed vs all these things, nor would now haue tolde vs any such.

    24And the wife bare a sonne, and called his name Samson: and the childe grewe, and the Lorde blessed him.

    25And the Spirite of the Lorde beganne to strengthen him in the host of Dan, betweene Zorah, and Eshtaol.

  • Judg 13:1
    73%

    1Bvt the children of Israel continued to commit wickednesse in the sight of the Lorde, and the Lorde deliuerd them into the handes of the Philistims fourtie yeere.

  • Gen 11:30
    72%

    30But Sarai was barren, and had no childe.

  • 1 Sam 1:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1There was a man of one of the two Ramathaim Zophim, of mount Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah the sonne of Ieroham, the sonne of Elihu, the sonne of Tohu, the sonne of Zuph, an Ephrathite:

    2And he had two wiues: the name of one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

  • Luke 1:7
    69%

    7And they had no childe, because that Elisabet was barren: and both were well stricken in age.

  • Luke 1:36
    69%

    36And behold, thy cousin Elisabet, she hath also conceiued a sonne in her olde age: and this is her sixt moneth, which was called barren.

  • 1 Sam 1:11
    68%

    11Also she vowed a vowe, and sayd, O Lord of hostes, if thou wilt looke on the trouble of thine handmaide, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaide, but giue vnto thine handmaide a manchilde, then I will giue him vnto the Lord all the dayes of his life, and there shall no rasor come vpon his head.

  • Luke 1:13
    68%

    13But the Angel saide vnto him, Feare not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard, and thy wise Elisabet shall beare thee a sonne, and thou shalt call his name Iohn.

  • Judg 14:1-4
    4 verses
    68%

    1Nowe Samson went downe to Timnath, and saw a woma in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistims,

    2And he came vp and told his father and his mother and saide, I haue seene a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistims: now therfore giue me her to wife.

    3Then his father and his mother sayde vnto him, Is there neuer a wife among the daughters of thy brethren, and among all my people, that thou must go to take a wife of the vncircumcised Philistims? And Samson sayd vnto his father, Giue mee her, for she pleaseth me wel.

    4But his father and his mother knewe not that it came of the Lorde, that he should seeke an occasion against the Philistims: for at that time the Philistims reigned ouer Israel.

  • Judg 15:1
    68%

    1Bvt within a while after, in the time of wheate haruest, Samson visited his wife with a kid, saying, I wil go in to my wife into the chamber: but her father would not suffer him to goe in.

  • Luke 1:5
    68%

    5In the time of Herod King of Iudea, there was a certaine Priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabet.

  • Exod 2:1
    68%

    1Then there went a man of the house of Leui, and tooke to wife a daughter of Leui,

  • Gal 4:27
    68%

    27For it is written, Reioyce thou barren that bearest no children: breake forth, & cry, thou that trauailest not: for the desolate hath many moe children, then she which hath an husband.

  • Luke 1:18
    67%

    18Then Zacharias said vnto ye Angel, Whereby shall I knowe this? For I am an olde man, and my wife is of a great age.

  • 1 Chr 7:14
    67%

    14The sonne of Manasseh was Ashriel whom she bare vnto him, but his concubine of Aram bare Machir the father of Gilead.

  • Ruth 4:13
    67%

    13So Boaz tooke Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in vnto her, the Lorde gaue that she conceiued, and bare a sonne.

  • 2 Kgs 4:17
    67%

    17So the woman conceiued, & bare a sonne at that same season, according to the time of life, that Elisha had sayd vnto her.

  • Ps 113:9
    67%

    9He maketh the barren woman to dwell with a familie, and a ioyfull mother of children. Prayse ye the Lord.

  • Luke 1:27
    67%

    27To a virgin affianced to a man whose name was Ioseph, of the house of Dauid, & the virgins name was Marie.

  • Judg 11:2
    67%

    2And Gileads wife bare him sonnes, and when the womans children were come to age, they thrust out Iphtah, and sayd vnto him, Thou shalt not inherite in our fathers house: for thou art the sonne of a strange woman.

  • Deut 7:14
    66%

    14Thou shalt be blessed aboue all people: there shall be neither male nor female barren among you, nor among your cattell.