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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Judges 13 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/judges/13.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/judges/13-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Judges 13</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../judges/12.htm" title="Judges 12">◄</a> Judges 13 <a href="../judges/14.htm" title="Judges 14">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/judges/13.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Birth of Samson</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, so the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>There was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. And his wife was barren and had no children. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And the angel of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> appeared to the woman and said to her, “Behold, you are barren and have not borne children, but you shall conceive and bear a son. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Therefore be careful and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>for behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then the woman came and told her husband, “A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. I did not ask him where he was from, and he did not tell me his name, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. So then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then Manoah prayed to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and said, “O Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us and teach us what we are to do with the child who will be born.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And 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 was not with her. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So the woman ran quickly and told her husband, “Behold, the man who came to me the other day has appeared to me.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Manoah arose and went after his wife and came to the man and said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to this woman?” And he said, “I am.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And Manoah said, “Now when your words come true, what is to be the child’s manner of life, and what is his mission?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the angel of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Manoah, “Of all that I said to the woman let her be careful. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>She may not eat of anything that comes from the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing. All that I commanded her let her observe.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Manoah said to the angel of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, “Please let us detain you and prepare a young goat for you.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And the angel of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Manoah, “If you detain me, I will not eat of your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, then offer it to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.” (For Manoah did not know that he was the angel of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.) <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And Manoah said to the angel of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, “What is your name, so that, when your words come true, we may honor you?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And the angel of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to him, “Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>So Manoah took the young goat with the grain offering, and offered it on the rock to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, to the one who works<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew LORD, and working">a</a></sup></span> wonders, and Manoah and his wife were watching. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> went up in the flame of the altar. Now Manoah and his wife were watching, and they fell on their faces to the ground.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The angel of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> appeared no more to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, for we have seen God.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But his wife said to him, “If the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering at our hands, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us such things as these.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And the woman bore a son and called his name Samson. And the young man grew, and the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> blessed him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And the Spirit of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> began to stir him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">19</span> Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word"><span class="divine-name">Lord</span></span>, and working</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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