Judges 13:1-3

Evangelical Heritage Version

The Twelfth Judge: Samson Versus the Philistines
Samson’s Birth

13 The people of Israel again committed evil in the eyes of the Lord, so the Lord gave them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.

² Now there was a certain man from Zorah, from the clan of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. His wife was barren. She had not given birth. ³ The Angel of the Lord^[a] appeared to the woman and said to her, “Listen, you are barren and have not given birth, but you will become pregnant and give birth to a son.