Judges 13:16
The LORD’s angel said to Manoah,“If I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you want to make a burnt sacrifice to the LORD, you should offer it.”(He said this because Manoah did not know that he was the LORD’s angel.)
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- Judg 6:20 : 20 God’s angel said to him,“Put the meat and unleavened bread on this rock, and pour out the broth.” Gideon did as instructed.
- Judg 6:26 : 26 Then build an altar for the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold according to the proper pattern. Take the second bull and offer it as a burnt sacrifice on the wood from the Asherah pole that you cut down.”
- Judg 13:23 : 23 But his wife said to him,“If the LORD wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us. He would not have shown us all these things, or have spoken to us like this just now.”
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- Judg 13:6-1510 verses86%
6 The woman went and said to her husband,“A man sent from God came to me! He looked like God’s angel– he was very awesome. I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.
7 He said to me,‘Look, you will conceive and have a son. So now, do not drink wine or beer and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean. For the child will be dedicated to God from birth till the day he dies.’”
8 Manoah prayed to the LORD,“Please, Lord, allow the man sent from God to visit us again, so he can teach us how we should raise the child who will be born.”
9 God answered Manoah’s prayer. God’s angel visited the woman again while she was sitting in the field. But her husband Manoah was not with her.
10 The woman ran at once and told her husband,“Come quickly, the man who visited me the other day has appeared to me!”
11 So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he met the man, he said to him,“Are you the man who spoke to my wife?” He said,“Yes.”
12 Manoah said,“Now, when your announcement comes true, how should the child be raised and what should he do?”
13 The LORD’s angel told Manoah,“Your wife should pay attention to everything I told her.
14 She should not drink anything that the grapevine produces. She must not drink wine or beer, and she must not eat any food that will make her ritually unclean. She should obey everything I commanded her to do.”
15 Manoah said to the LORD’s angel,“Please stay here awhile, so we can prepare a young goat for you to eat.”
- Judg 13:17-237 verses81%
17 Manoah said to the LORD’s angel,“Tell us your name, so we can honor you when your announcement comes true.”
18 The LORD’s angel said to him,“You should not ask me my name, because you cannot comprehend it.”
19 Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the LORD. The LORD’s messenger did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched.
20 As the flame went up from the altar toward the sky, the LORD’s angel went up in it while Manoah and his wife watched. They fell facedown to the ground.
21 The LORD’s angel did not appear again to Manoah and his wife. After all this happened Manoah realized that the visitor had been the LORD’s angel.
22 Manoah said to his wife,“We will certainly die, because we have seen a supernatural being!”
23 But his wife said to him,“If the LORD wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us. He would not have shown us all these things, or have spoken to us like this just now.”
- 1 Kgs 13:15-195 verses74%
15 He then said to him,“Come home with me and eat something.”
16 But he replied,“I can’t go back with you. I am not allowed to eat food or to drink water with you in this place.
17 For an order came to me in the LORD’s message,‘Eat no food. Drink no water there. And do not return by the way you came.’”
18 Then the old prophet said,“I too am a prophet like you. And an angel has told me in a message from the LORD,‘Bring him back with you to your house so he can eat food and drink water.’” But he had lied to him.
19 So the prophet went back with him. He ate food in his house and he drank water.
- Judg 13:2-43 verses72%
2 There was a man named Manoah from Zorah, from the Danite tribe. His wife was infertile and childless.
3 The LORD’s angel appeared to the woman and said to her,“You are infertile and childless, but you will conceive and have a son.
4 Now be careful! Do not drink wine or beer, and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean.
- 1 Kgs 13:8-92 verses72%
8 But the prophet said to the king,“Even if you were to give me half your possessions, I would not go with you. I am not allowed to eat food or drink water in this place.
9 For this is how I was commanded in the LORD’s message,‘Eat no food. Drink no water. And do not return by the way you came.’”
- Judg 6:18-236 verses71%
18 Do not leave this place until I come back with a gift and present it to you.” The LORD said,“I will stay here until you come back.”
19 Gideon went and prepared a young goat, along with unleavened bread made from an ephah of flour. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot. He brought the food to him under the oak tree and presented it to him.
20 God’s angel said to him,“Put the meat and unleavened bread on this rock, and pour out the broth.” Gideon did as instructed.
21 The LORD’s angel touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of his staff. Fire flared up from the rock and consumed the meat and unleavened bread. The LORD’s angel then disappeared.
22 When Gideon realized that it was the LORD’s angel, he said,“Oh no! Sovereign LORD! I have seen the LORD’s angel face to face!”
23 The LORD said to him,“You are safe! Do not be afraid! You are not going to die!”
- Judg 6:11-122 verses68%
11 Gideon Meets Some Visitors The LORD’s angel came and sat down under the oak tree in Ophrah owned by Joash the Abiezrite. He arrived while Joash’s son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress so he could hide it from the Midianites.
12 The LORD’s angel appeared and said to him,“The LORD is with you, courageous warrior!”
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33 When food was served, he said,“I will not eat until I have said what I want to say.”“Tell us,” Laban said.
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25 Man ate the food of the mighty ones. He sent them more than enough to eat.
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7 The LORD’s angel came back again, touched him, and said,“Get up and eat, for otherwise you won’t be able to make the journey.”
- 1 Sam 2:15-162 verses67%
15 Also, before they burned the fat the priest’s attendant would come and say to the person who was making the sacrifice,“Give some meat for the priest to roast! He won’t accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”
16 If the individual said to him,“They should certainly burn the fat away first, then take for yourself whatever you wish,” he would say,“No! Give it now! If not, I’ll take it by force!”
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23 But he refused, saying,“I won’t eat!” Both his servants and the woman urged him to eat, so he gave in. He got up from the ground and sat down on the bed.
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15 When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another,“What is it?” because they did not know what it was. Moses said to them,“It is the bread that the LORD has given you for food.
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19 and you eat some of the food of the land, you must offer up a raised offering to the LORD.
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3 So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. He did this to teach you that humankind cannot live by bread alone, but also by everything that comes from the LORD’s mouth.
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12 “Do not harm the boy!” the angel said.“Do not do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God because you did not withhold your son, your only son, from me.”
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20 The Angel of the Presence“I am going to send an angel before you to protect you as you journey and to bring you into the place that I have prepared.
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4 They will ask you how you’re doing and will give you two loaves of bread. You will accept them.
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5 He replied,“Don’t you know what these are?” So I responded,“No, sir.”
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21 “The LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel says to the people of Judah:‘You might as well go ahead and add the meat of your burnt offerings to that of the other sacrifices and eat it, too!
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21 So he cried out to the prophet who had come from Judah,“This is what the LORD has said,‘You have rebelled against the LORD’s instruction and have not obeyed the command the LORD your God gave you.