Judges 13:8
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.”
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- Job 34:32 : 32 Teach me what I cannot see. If I have done evil, I will do so no more.’
- Prov 3:5-6 : 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding. 6 Acknowledge him in all your ways, and he will make your paths straight.
- Acts 9:6 : 6 But stand up and enter the city and you will be told what you must do.”
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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.”
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.)
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.”
24 Manoah’s wife gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The child grew and the LORD empowered him.
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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.
5 Look, you will conceive and have a son. You must never cut his hair, for the child will be dedicated to God from birth. He will begin to deliver Israel from the power of the Philistines.”
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.’”
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20 Then Hannah became pregnant. Hannah Dedicates Samuel to the LordIn the course of time she gave birth to a son. And she named him Samuel, thinking,“I asked the LORD for him.”
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12 The LORD’s angel appeared and said to him,“The LORD is with you, courageous warrior!”
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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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23 Then her husband Elkanah said to her,“Do what you think best. Stay until you have weaned him. Only may the LORD fulfill his promise.” So the woman stayed and nursed her son until she had weaned him.
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5 They said to him,“Seek a divine oracle for us, so we can know if we will be successful on our mission.”
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36 She said to him,“My father, since you made an oath to the LORD, do to me as you promised. After all, the LORD vindicated you before your enemies, the Ammonites.”
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18 She asked Elijah,“Why, prophet, have you come to me to confront me with my sin and kill my son?”
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16 He said,“About this time next year you will be holding a son.” She said,“No, my master! O prophet, do not lie to your servant!”
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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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28 She said,“Did I ask my master for a son? Didn’t I say,‘Don’t mislead me?’”
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3 Pray that the LORD your God will tell us where we should go and what we should do.”
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15 He then said to him,“Come home with me and eat something.”
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20 Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife saying,“May the LORD establish descendants for you from this woman in place of the one that she dedicated to the LORD.”Then they would go to their home.