Judges 13:17
Manoah said to the LORD’s angel,“Tell us your name, so we can honor you when your announcement comes true.”
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- Gen 32:29 : 29 Then Jacob asked,“Please tell me your name.”“Why do you ask my name?” the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there.
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- Judg 13:18-236 verses88%
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.”
- Judg 13:15-162 verses81%
15 Manoah said to the LORD’s angel,“Please stay here awhile, so we can prepare a young goat for you to eat.”
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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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.
- Judg 6:22-232 verses72%
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!”
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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!”
13 Gideon said to him,“Pardon me, but if the LORD is with us, why has such disaster overtaken us? Where are all his miraculous deeds our ancestors told us about? They said,‘Did the LORD not bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.”
- Judg 13:2-32 verses71%
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.
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29 Then Jacob asked,“Please tell me your name.”“Why do you ask my name?” the man replied. Then he blessed Jacob there.
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5 As for the LORD God Almighty, the LORD is the name by which he is remembered!
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17 Gideon said to him,“If you really are pleased with me, then give me a sign as proof that it is really you speaking with me.
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7 The king asked them,“Describe the appearance of this man who came up to meet you and told you these things.”
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18 What more can David say to you? You have honored your servant; you have given your servant special recognition.
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13 But the angel said to him,“Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son; you will name him John.
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17 So your servant said,‘May the word of my lord the king be my security, for my lord the king is like the angel of God when it comes to deciding between right and wrong! May the LORD your God be with you!’”
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17 Eli said,“What message did he speak to you? Don’t conceal it from me. God will judge you severely if you conceal from me anything that he said to you!”
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27 The man asked him,“What is your name?” He answered,“Jacob.”
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13 Moses said to God,“If I go to the Israelites and tell them,‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me,‘What is his name?’– what should I say to them?”
- Luke 1:18-192 verses66%
18 Zechariah said to the angel,“How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is old as well.”
19 The angel answered him,“I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.
- Zech 1:9-102 verses66%
9 The Interpretation of the First Vision Then I asked one nearby,“What are these, sir?” The angelic messenger who replied to me said,“I will show you what these are.”
10 Then the man standing among the myrtle trees spoke up and said,“These are the ones whom the LORD has sent to walk about on the earth.”
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15 The LORD’s angel called to Abraham a second time from heaven
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5 He replied,“Don’t you know what these are?” So I responded,“No, sir.”
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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.’”
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28 Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven,“I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”
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13 The LORD then addressed good, comforting words to the angelic messenger who was speaking to me.
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34 Mary said to the angel,“How will this be, since I have not been intimate with a man?”
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11 But the LORD’s angel called to him from heaven,“Abraham! Abraham!”“Here I am!” he answered.
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17 He asked,“What is this grave marker I see?” The men from the city replied,“It’s the grave of the prophet who came from Judah and foretold these very things you have done to the altar of Bethel.”
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37 Each of you should merely ask the prophet,‘What answer did the LORD give you? Or what did the LORD say?’
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14 He answered,“Truly I am the commander of the LORD’s army. Now I have arrived!” Joshua bowed down with his face to the ground and asked,“What does my master want to say to his servant?”
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6 The Sacrilege of Priestly Service“A son naturally honors his father and a slave respects his master. If I am your father, where is my honor? If I am your master, where is my respect? The LORD of Heaven’s Armies asks you this, you priests who make light of my name! But you reply,‘How have we made light of your name?’
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18 And Moses said,“Show me your glory.”