The Birth of Samson
(Numbers 6:1–21)
Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, so He delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years. 1Sa 12:9Jdg 6:1Rom 2:6Jdg 2:11Jdg 3:7Jdg 10:6Jdg 4:1Jer 13:23
Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children. Jos 19:41Gen 25:21Jos 15:33Luk 1:71Sa 1:2-6Gen 16:1 The angel 1of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “It is true that you are barren and have no children; but you will conceive and give birth to a son. Luk 1:13Gen 18:10Luk 1:112Ki 4:16Jdg 13:8Jdg 2:1Jdg 6:11-121Sa 1:20 Now please be careful not to drink wine or strong drink, and not to eat anything unclean. Luk 1:15Jdg 13:14Num 6:2-3Jdg 13:7Act 10:14Lev 11:27Lev 11:47 For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall come over his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite 2to God from the womb, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hand of the Philistines.” Num 6:51Sa 1:111Ch 18:1Num 6:2-31Sa 7:132Sa 8:1
So the woman went and told her husband, “A man of God came to me. His appearance was like the angel of God, exceedingly awesome. I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name. Jdg 13:17-18Mat 28:3-41Sa 9:6Rev 1:172Ki 4:9Act 6:15Dan 10:11Dan 10:5 But he said to me, ‘Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. Now, therefore, do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb until the day of his death.’” Jdg 13:4
Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, “Please, O Lord, let the man of God You sent us come to us again to teach us how to raise the boy who is to be born.” Act 9:6Job 34:32Pro 3:5-6
And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God returned to the woman as she was sitting in the field; but her husband Manoah was not with her. Psa 65:2Mat 7:7-11 The woman ran quickly to tell her husband, “Behold, the man who came to me the other day has reappeared!” Jhn 1:41-42Jhn 4:28-29
So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he asked, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?”
“I am,” he said.
Then Manoah asked, “When your words come to pass, what will be the boy’s rule of life and mission?” Eph 6:4Pro 22:6Gen 18:19Pro 4:4
So the angel of the LORD answered Manoah, “Your wife is to do everything I told her. She must not eat anything that comes from the vine, nor drink any wine or strong drink, nor eat anything unclean. She must do everything I have commanded her.” Deu 12:32Jhn 2:52Th 3:4Jdg 13:4Jhn 15:14Jdg 13:7Mat 28:20Num 6:4
“Please stay here,” Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “and we will prepare a young goat for you.” Gen 18:3-5Jdg 13:3Jdg 6:18-19
And the angel of the LORD replied, “Even if I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the LORD.” For Manoah did not know that it was the angel of the LORD. Jdg 13:23Jdg 6:20Jdg 6:26
Then Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “What is your name, so that we may honor you when your word comes to pass?” Gen 32:29
“Why do you ask my name,” said the angel of the LORD, “since it is beyond comprehension?” Gen 32:29Isa 9:6Jdg 13:6
Then Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the LORD. And as Manoah and his wife looked on, the LORD did a marvelous thing. Jdg 6:19-211Ki 18:30-38 When the flame went up from the altar to the sky, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame. Lev 9:241Ch 21:162Ki 2:11Ezk 1:28Mat 17:61Ch 21:26Gen 17:3Heb 1:3
When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown to the ground. And when the angel of the LORD did not appear again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized that it had been the angel of the LORD. Jdg 6:22Hos 12:4-5Jdg 13:16
“We are going to die,” he said to his wife, “for we have seen God!” Gen 32:30Deu 5:26Jhn 1:18Exo 33:20Isa 6:5Jhn 5:37Deu 4:38Jdg 6:22
But his wife replied, “If the LORD had intended to kill us, He would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things or spoken to us this way.” 1Co 12:21Psa 25:14Jhn 14:20Jhn 15:15Psa 86:17Ecc 4:9-10Pro 3:32Gen 4:4-5
So the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The boy grew, and the LORD blessed him. Luk 1:801Sa 3:19Heb 11:32Luk 2:52 And the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him at Mahaneh-dan, 3 between Zorah and Eshtaol. Jdg 3:10Jhn 3:34Jos 15:331Sa 11:6Jdg 11:29Jdg 18:11-12Jdg 6:34Mat 4:1