Judges 13:8

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Then Manoah entreated the Lord, and said, “O, Lord, I pray, let the man of God whom you sent come to us again and teach us what we are to do concerning the boy who will be born.”

Cross References

Job 34:32

teach me what I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?

Acts 9:6

But get up and enter the city, and you will be told what you are to do.”

Judges 13:11

Manoah got up and followed his wife, and came to the man and said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to this woman?” And he said, “I am.”

Judges 13:3

And the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, “Although you are barren, having borne no children, you shall conceive and bear a son.

Judges 13:6

Then the woman came and told her husband, “A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like that of an angel of God, most awe-inspiring; I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name;

Judges 13:7

but he said to me, ‘You shall conceive and bear a son. So then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the boy shall be a nazirite to God from birth to the day of his death.’ ”

Judges 13:9

God listened to Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field; but her husband Manoah was not with her.