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Samson’s Parents

13 And again, the Israelites[a] did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and Yahweh gave them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.

There was a certain man from Zorah, from the tribe of the Danites, and his name was Manoah; his wife was infertile and did not bear children.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 13:1 Literally “sons/children of Israel”

The Birth of Samson

13 Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord, so the Lord delivered them into the hands of the Philistines(A) for forty years.(B)

A certain man of Zorah,(C) named Manoah,(D) from the clan of the Danites,(E) had a wife who was childless,(F) unable to give birth.

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