Judges 13 - Revised Standard Version(RSVCI)

1And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.

2And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had no children.

3And the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, “Behold, you are barren and have no children; but you shall conceive and bear a son.

4 wonders.

20And when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar while Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground.

21The angel of the Lord appeared no more to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the Lord.

22And Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, for we have seen God.”

23But his wife said to him, “If the Lord had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a cereal offering at our hands, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us such things as these.”

24Lk 2.40. And the woman bore a son, and called his name Samson; and the boy grew, and the Lord blessed him.

25And the Spirit of the Lord began to stir him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshta-ol.