Juízes 13

¹ Bvt the children of Israel continued to commit wickednesse in the sight of the Lorde, and the Lorde deliuerd them into the handes of the Philistims fourtie yeere.

² And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name [was] Manoah; and his wife [was]Signifying that their deliverance came only from God, and not by man's power.barren, and bare not.

³ And the Angel of the Lorde appeared vnto the woman, and said vnto her, Beholde nowe, thou art baren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceiue, and beare a sonne.

⁴ And nowe therefore beware that thou drinke no wine, nor strong drinke, neither eate any vncleane thing.

⁵ For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be aMeaning he should be separate from the world, and dedicated to God.Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

⁶ Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance [was] like the countenance of an angel of God, veryIf flesh is not able to endure the sight of an angel, how much less the presence of God?terrible: but I asked him not whence he [was], neither told he me his name:

⁷ But he saide vnto me, Beholde, thou shalt conceiue, and beare a sonne, and nowe thou shalt drinke no wine, nor strong drinke, neither eate any vncleane thing: for the childe shalbe a Nazarite to God from his birth to the day of his death.

⁸ Then ManoahHe shows himself ready to obey God's will, and therefore desires to know more.intreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.

⁹ And God heard the voyce of Manoah, and the Angel of God came againe vnto the wife, as she sate in the fielde, but Manoah her husbande was not with her.

¹⁰ And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me theIt seems that the angel appeared to her twice in one day.[other] day.

¹¹ And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to theHe calls him man, because he so seemed, but he was Christ the eternal word, which at his appointed time became man.man, and said unto him, [Art] thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I [am].

¹² Then Manoah sayde, Nowe let thy saying come to passe: but howe shall we order the childe and doe vnto him?

¹³ And the Angell of the Lorde saide vnto Manoah, The woman must beware of all that I said vnto her.

¹⁴ She may not eat of any [thing] that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat anyAnything forbidden by the Law.unclean [thing]: all that I commanded her let her observe.

¹⁵ Manoah then said vnto the Angell of the Lorde, I pray thee, let vs reteine thee, vntill we haue made readie a kid for thee.

¹⁶ And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto theShowing that he did not seek his own honour but God's, whose messenger he was.LORD. For Manoah knew not that he [was] an angel of the LORD.

¹⁷ Againe Manoah said vnto the Angell of the Lorde, What is thy name, that when thy saying is come to passe, we may honour thee?

¹⁸ And the Angell of the Lorde saide vnto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, which is secret?

¹⁹ So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered [it] upon a rock unto the LORD: and [the angel] didGod sent fire from heaven to consume their sacrifice, to consume their faith in his promise.wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.

²⁰ For when the flame came vp toward heauen from the altar, the Angel of the Lorde ascended vp in the flame of the altar, and Manoah and his wife behelde it, and fell on their faces vnto the grounde.

²¹ (So the Angel of the Lorde did no more appeare vnto Manoah and his wife.) Then Manoah knewe that it was an Angel of the Lord.

²² And Manoah said vnto his wife, We shal surely dye, because we haue seene God.

²³ But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received aThese graces that we have received from God, and his accepting of our obedience, are sure tokens of his love for us, so that nothing can hurt us.burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these [things], nor would as at this time have told us [such things] as these.

²⁴ And the wife bare a sonne, and called his name Samson: and the childe grewe, and the Lorde blessed him.

²⁵ And the Spirite of the Lorde beganne to strengthen him in the host of Dan, betweene Zorah, and Eshtaol.