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4 articles found for “Manoah's wife”

• Manoah

  [People]

  Manoah is a man of the tribe of Dan in the Old Testament Book of Judges and the father of the judge Samson. He and his wife received from the angel of the Lord the announcement of their son's birth.

• Zorah

  [Bible]

  Zorah was a town in the lowland of Judah that appears in the Book of Joshua in the territorial lists of both Judah and Dan. It was the hometown of Manoah, the father of Samson, and is a setting for both the Samson narrative and the account of the Danite migration.

• Judges 13

  [Bible]

  Judges 13 recounts how, during forty years of Philistine oppression, the angel of the LORD appeared to the wife of Manoah of the tribe of Dan to announce the birth of a Nazirite son, and how Samson was born.

• Samson

  [People]

  Samson was a judge of Israel in the Old Testament book of Judges. Born a Nazarite, he fought against the Philistines. Renowned for his great strength, he was captured after revealing the secret of his strength to Delilah, and he died when he brought down the temple of Dagon.