The Old Testament
| Book | Chapter | Verse | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Judges | 12 | (11) And after him Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years. | |
| Judges | 12 | (12) And Elon the Zebulonite died, and was buried in Aijalon in the country of Zebulun. | |
| Judges | 12 | (13) And after him Abdon the son of Hillel, a Pirathonite, judged Israel. | |
| Judges | 12 | (14) And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years. | |
| Judges | 12 | (15) And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mount of the Amalekites. | |
| Judges | 13 | (1) AND THE children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. | |
| Judges | 13 | (2) And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not. | |
| Judges | 13 | (3) And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son. | |
| Judges | 13 | (4) Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing: | |
| Judges | 13 | (5) For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines. | |
| Judges | 13 | (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, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name: | |
| Judges | 13 | (7) But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death. | |
| Judges | 13 | (8) Then Manoah entreated 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. | |
| Judges | 13 | (9) And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband was not with her. | |
| Judges | 13 | (10) And the woman made haste, and ran, and showed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day. | |
| Judges | 13 | (11) And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am. | |
| Judges | 13 | (12) And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him? | |
| Judges | 13 | (13) And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware. | |
| Judges | 13 | (14) She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe. | |
| Judges | 13 | (15) And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee. | |