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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 Legacy Standard Bible</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="../">LSB</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Legacy Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/nasb_/judges/13.htm" style="color:#0092f2" title="NASB">►► </a></td></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">The Birth of Samson</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/13-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then the sons of Israel again did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh, so that Yahweh gave them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/13-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had borne no <i>children</i>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/13-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then the angel of Yahweh appeared to the woman and said to her, “Behold now, you are barren and have borne no <i>children</i>, but you <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>shall be with child and give birth to a son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/13-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>So now, be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/13-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For behold, you <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>shall be with child and give birth to a son, and no razor shall come upon his head, for the boy 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="/judges/13-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, “A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. And I did not ask him where he <i>came</i> from, nor did he tell me his name. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/13-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And he said to me, ‘Behold, you <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>shall be with child and give birth to a son, so now you shall not drink wine or strong drink, and you shall not eat any unclean thing, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then Manoah entreated Yahweh and said, “O Lord, please let the man of God whom You have sent come to us again that he may instruct us what to do for the boy who is to be born.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/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 was sitting in the field, but Manoah her husband was not with her. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So the woman ran quickly and told her husband, and she said to him, “Behold, the man who came the <i>other</i> day to me has appeared to me.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then Manoah arose and followed his wife, and when he came to the man he said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to the woman?” And he said, “I am.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So Manoah said, “Now your words will come <i>to pass</i>. What shall be the judgment <i>governing</i> the boy and his work?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So the angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, “Let the woman be careful in all that I said. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>She should not eat anything that comes from the vine, nor drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing; let her keep all that I commanded.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/13-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, “Please let us delay you so that we may prepare a young goat for you.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/13-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And the angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, “Though you delay me, I will not eat your <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>food, but if you prepare a burnt offering, <i>then</i> offer it to Yahweh.” For Manoah did not know that he was the angel of Yahweh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/13-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, “What is your name, so that when your words come <i>to pass</i>, we may honor you?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/13-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But the angel of Yahweh said to him, “Why do you ask my name, seeing it is <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>wonderful?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/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 Yahweh, and He did a wondrous thing while Manoah and his wife looked on. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/13-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Indeed, it happened when the flame went up from the altar toward heaven, that the angel of Yahweh went up in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife saw <i>this</i>, so they fell on their faces to the ground. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/13-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Now the angel of Yahweh did not appear to Manoah or his wife again. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of Yahweh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/13-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>So Manoah said to his wife, “We will surely die, for we have seen God.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/13-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But his wife said to him, “If Yahweh had desired to put us to death, He would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things, nor would He have let us hear <i>things</i> like this at this time.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/13-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson; and the child grew up, and Yahweh blessed him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/judges/13-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And the Spirit of Yahweh began to stir him in <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">3</span> Lit <i>shall conceive</i>, cf. Gen 3:16; 21:2; 25:21; Ex 2:2; 1 Sam 1:20; Luke 1:31, 36<br><span class="fnverse">5</span> Or <i>shall conceive</i>, cf. Gen 3:16; 21:2; 25:21; Ex 2:2; 1 Sam 1:20; Luke 1:31, 36<br><span class="fnverse">7</span> Or <i>shall conceive</i>, cf. Gen 3:16; 21:2; 25:21; Ex 2:2; 1 Sam 1:20; Luke 1:31, 36<br><span class="fnverse">16</span> Lit <i>bread</i><br><span class="fnverse">18</span> Or <i>incomprehensible</i><br><span class="fnverse">25</span> Lit <i>the camp of Dan</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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