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Judges Chapter 13

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Judges 13 records the birth of Samson, foretold by the Angel of the Lord to the barren wife of Manoah, a Danite from Zorah, while Israel was oppressed by the Philistines for forty years. The child was to be a lifelong Nazarite who would begin to deliver Israel, so his mother was to abstain from wine, strong drink, and unclean food. The chapter closes with the birth of Samson, the blessing of the Lord on the boy, and the Spirit of the Lord beginning to move him in the camp of Dan.

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(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.
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Judges 2:11Judges 3:7Judges 4:1Judges 6:1Judges 10:6Romans 2:6Jeremiah 13:23I Samuel 12:9

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I Samuel 7:7

(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.
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Joshua 15:33Joshua 19:41Genesis 16:1Genesis 25:21I Samuel 1:2I Samuel 1:3I Samuel 1:4I Samuel 1:5I Samuel 1:6Luke 1:7

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Numbers 26:58Numbers 3:27I Samuel 12:3Philippians 3:19Numbers 26:12Numbers 26:15

(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.
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Judges 2:1Judges 6:11Judges 6:12Genesis 16:7Genesis 16:8Genesis 16:9Genesis 16:10Genesis 16:11Genesis 16:12Genesis 16:13Luke 1:11Luke 1:28

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II Samuel 18:20II Samuel 24:16I Chronicles 21:15

(4) Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
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Judges 13:14Numbers 6:2Numbers 6:3Luke 1:15Leviticus 11:27Leviticus 11:47Acts 10:14

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Isaiah 28:7Leviticus 5:2Numbers 6:3Mark 2:22Judges 13:7Judges 13:14

(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.
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Numbers 6:2Numbers 6:3Numbers 6:5I Samuel 1:11I Samuel 7:13II Samuel 8:1I Chronicles 18:1

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Judges 13:7II Samuel 12:18I Corinthians 13:11I Samuel 28:19II Samuel 5:19II Samuel 18:20

(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:
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Deuteronomy 33:1Joshua 14:6I Samuel 2:27I Samuel 9:6I Kings 17:18I Kings 17:24II Kings 4:9II Kings 4:16I Timothy 6:11Matthew 28:3Luke 9:29Acts 6:15

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I Kings 3:11Romans 7:2Song of Solomon 2:14II Samuel 24:16I Chronicles 21:15II Chronicles 1:11

(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.
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Judges 13:5Isaiah 28:7Leviticus 5:2Numbers 6:3Mark 2:22II Samuel 12:18

(8) Then Manoah 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.
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Job 34:32Proverbs 3:5Proverbs 3:6Acts 9:6

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II Samuel 12:18II Samuel 12:21I Corinthians 13:11Isaiah 57:9II Kings 4:34Isaiah 54:1

(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.
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Psalms 65:2Matthew 7:7Matthew 7:8Matthew 7:9Matthew 7:10Matthew 7:11

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Judges 13:16Judges 13:21Judges 13:19Romans 7:2Genesis 23:17Exodus 9:25

(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 the other day.
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John 1:41John 1:42John 4:28John 4:29

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Romans 7:2

(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.
(12) And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?
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Genesis 18:19Proverbs 4:4Proverbs 22:6Ephesians 6:4

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II Samuel 12:18I Corinthians 13:11II Kings 4:34

(13) And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware.
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Judges 13:16Judges 13:21Judges 13:9Judges 13:19II Samuel 24:16I Chronicles 21:15

(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.
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Deuteronomy 12:32Matthew 28:20John 2:5John 15:14II Thessalonians 3:4

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Isaiah 28:7Leviticus 5:2Numbers 6:3Mark 2:22Genesis 49:11Judges 13:4

(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.
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Judges 6:18Judges 6:19Genesis 18:3Genesis 18:4Genesis 18:5

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Judges 13:16Judges 13:19Judges 13:21Judges 13:9II Samuel 24:16I Chronicles 21:15

(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 the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD.
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Judges 13:23Judges 6:26

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Judges 13:21Judges 13:9Judges 13:19II Samuel 24:16I Chronicles 21:15Malachi 1:8

(17) And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?
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Judges 13:16Judges 13:21Judges 13:9Judges 13:19II Samuel 24:16I Chronicles 21:15

(18) And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?
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Judges 13:6Genesis 32:29

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I Samuel 1:8II Samuel 24:16I Chronicles 21:15

(19) So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.
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Judges 6:19Judges 6:20I Kings 18:30I Kings 18:31I Kings 18:32I Kings 18:33I Kings 18:34I Kings 18:35I Kings 18:36I Kings 18:37I Kings 18:38Judges 6:21

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Judges 13:16Judges 13:21Judges 13:9Judges 13:20Judges 13:15I Kings 8:64

(20) For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.
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II Kings 2:11Psalms 47:5Hebrews 1:3Genesis 17:3Leviticus 9:24I Chronicles 21:16I Chronicles 21:26Ezekiel 1:26Ezekiel 1:28Daniel 10:9Matthew 17:6

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Judges 20:40Deuteronomy 28:56I Kings 7:25II Chronicles 4:4Ezekiel 8:16Ezekiel 48:10

(21) But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD.
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Judges 6:22Hosea 12:4Hosea 12:5

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Judges 13:16Judges 13:9Judges 13:19II Samuel 24:16I Chronicles 21:15Judges 6:21

(22) And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
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Genesis 32:30Exodus 33:20Deuteronomy 4:38Deuteronomy 5:26Isaiah 6:5John 1:18John 5:37

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Numbers 35:17Numbers 35:18Jeremiah 44:25Ezekiel 3:18Ezekiel 33:8II Kings 7:4

(23) But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a 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.
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Ecclesiastes 4:9Ecclesiastes 4:10I Corinthians 12:21Genesis 4:4Genesis 4:5Psalms 86:17Psalms 25:14Psalms 27:13Proverbs 3:32John 14:20John 14:23John 15:15

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II Kings 16:15

(24) And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.
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Hebrews 11:32I Samuel 3:19Luke 1:80Luke 2:52

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II Samuel 12:18I Corinthians 13:11I Samuel 2:21II Kings 4:34

(25) And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
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Judges 3:10Judges 6:34Judges 11:29I Samuel 11:6Matthew 4:1John 3:34Judges 18:11Joshua 15:33

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Joshua 19:47Numbers 2:25Judges 18:2Exodus 33:7

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