{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "judges", "chapter": 13 }, "data": { "n": 13, "bookSlug": "judges", "bookCode": "JDG", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "JDG-13:1", "verseRef": "Judg.13.1", "text": "And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah; and Jehovah delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years." },{ "n": 2, "refId": "JDG-13:2", "verseRef": "Judg.13.2", "text": "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." },{ "n": 3, "refId": "JDG-13:3", "verseRef": "Judg.13.3", "text": "And the angel of Jehovah appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not; but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "JDG-13:4", "verseRef": "Judg.13.4", "text": "Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:" },{ "n": 5, "refId": "JDG-13:5", "verseRef": "Judg.13.5", "text": "for, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come upon his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "JDG-13:6", "verseRef": "Judg.13.6", "text": "Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of the angel of God, very terrible; and I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:" },{ "n": 7, "refId": "JDG-13:7", "verseRef": "Judg.13.7", "text": "but he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite unto God from the womb to the day of his death." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "JDG-13:8", "verseRef": "Judg.13.8", "text": "Then Manoah entreated Jehovah, and said, Oh, Lord, I pray thee, let the man of God whom thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "JDG-13:9", "verseRef": "Judg.13.9", "text": "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." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "JDG-13:10", "verseRef": "Judg.13.10", "text": "And the woman made haste, and ran, and told her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the [other] day." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "JDG-13:11", "verseRef": "Judg.13.11", "text": "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." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "JDG-13:12", "verseRef": "Judg.13.12", "text": "And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass: what shall be the ordering of the child, and [how] shall we do unto him?" },{ "n": 13, "refId": "JDG-13:13", "verseRef": "Judg.13.13", "text": "And the angel of Jehovah said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "JDG-13:14", "verseRef": "Judg.13.14", "text": "She may not eat of anything 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." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "JDG-13:15", "verseRef": "Judg.13.15", "text": "And Manoah said unto the angel of Jehovah, I pray thee, let us detain thee, that we may make ready a kid for thee." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "JDG-13:16", "verseRef": "Judg.13.16", "text": "And the angel of Jehovah said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread; and if thou wilt make ready a burnt-offering, thou must offer it unto Jehovah. For Manoah knew not that he was the angel of Jehovah." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "JDG-13:17", "verseRef": "Judg.13.17", "text": "And Manoah said unto the angel of Jehovah, What is thy name, that, when thy words come to pass, we may do thee honor?" },{ "n": 18, "refId": "JDG-13:18", "verseRef": "Judg.13.18", "text": "And the angel of Jehovah said unto him, Wherefore askest thou after my name, seeing it is wonderful?" },{ "n": 19, "refId": "JDG-13:19", "verseRef": "Judg.13.19", "text": "So Manoah took the kid with the meal-offering, and offered it upon the rock unto Jehovah: and [the angel] did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "JDG-13:20", "verseRef": "Judg.13.20", "text": "For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of Jehovah ascended in the flame of the altar: and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "JDG-13:21", "verseRef": "Judg.13.21", "text": "But the angel of Jehovah did no more appear to Manoah or to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of Jehovah." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "JDG-13:22", "verseRef": "Judg.13.22", "text": "And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "JDG-13:23", "verseRef": "Judg.13.23", "text": "But his wife said unto him, If Jehovah were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt-offering and a meal-offering at our hand, neither would he have showed us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "JDG-13:24", "verseRef": "Judg.13.24", "text": "And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and Jehovah blessed him." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "JDG-13:25", "verseRef": "Judg.13.25", "text": "And the Spirit of Jehovah began to move him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/judges/chapters/13", "book": "/v1/library/books/judges/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/judges/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }