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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 NIV</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="../">NIV</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">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/judges/13.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">The Birth of Samson</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the <span class="name">Lord</span>, so the <span class="name">Lord</span> delivered them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>A certain man of Zorah, named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, had a wife who was childless, unable to give birth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The angel of the <span class="name">Lord</span> appeared to her and said, “You are barren and childless, but you are going to become pregnant and give birth to a son. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Now see to it that you drink no wine or other fermented drink and that you do not eat anything unclean. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>You will become pregnant and have a son whose head is never to be touched by a razor because the boy is to be a Nazirite, dedicated to God from the womb. He will take the lead in delivering Israel from the hands of the Philistines.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then the woman went to her husband and told him, “A man of God came to me. He looked like an angel of God, very awesome. I didn’t ask him where he came from, and he didn’t 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, ‘You will become pregnant and have a son. Now then, drink no wine or other fermented drink and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite of God from the womb until the day of his death.’ ”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then Manoah prayed to the <span class="name">Lord</span>: “Pardon your servant, Lord. I beg you to let the man of God you sent to us come again to teach us how to bring up the boy who is to be born.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>God heard Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman while she was out in the field; but her husband Manoah was not with her. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The woman hurried to tell her husband, “He’s here! The man who appeared to me the other day!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he said, “Are you the man who talked to my wife?”</p><p class="reg">“I am,” he said.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So Manoah asked him, “When your words are fulfilled, what is to be the rule that governs the boy’s life and work?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The angel of the <span class="name">Lord</span> answered, “Your wife must do all that I have told her. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>She must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine, nor drink any wine or other fermented drink nor eat anything unclean. She must do everything I have commanded her.”</p> <p class="reg"><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="name">Lord</span>, “We would like you to stay until we prepare a young goat for you.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The angel of the <span class="name">Lord</span> replied, “Even though you detain me, I will not eat any of your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the <span class="name">Lord</span>.” (Manoah did not realize that it was the angel of the <span class="name">Lord</span>.)</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then Manoah inquired of the angel of the <span class="name">Lord</span>, “What is your name, so that we may honor you when your word comes true?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He replied, “Why do you ask my name? It is beyond understanding. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or is wonderful">a</a></sup></span> ” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then Manoah took a young goat, together with the grain offering, and sacrificed it on a rock to the <span class="name">Lord</span>. And the <span class="name">Lord</span> did an amazing thing while Manoah and his wife watched: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>As the flame blazed up from the altar toward heaven, the angel of the <span class="name">Lord</span> ascended in the flame. Seeing this, Manoah and his wife fell with their faces to the ground. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>When the angel of the <span class="name">Lord</span> did not show himself again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized that it was the angel of the <span class="name">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“We are doomed to die!” he said to his wife. “We have seen God!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But his wife answered, “If the <span class="name">Lord</span> had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and grain offering from our hands, nor shown us all these things or now told us this.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The woman gave birth to a boy and named him Samson. He grew and the <span class="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="name">Lord</span> began to stir him while he was in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>is wonderful</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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