World English Bible
Judges 13:20
“For it happened, when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, that the angel of Yahweh ascended in the flame of the altar: and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground.”
Verse in context — Judges 13
18
The angel of Yahweh said to him, "Why do you ask about my name, since it is wonderful?
19
So Manoah took the young goat with the meal offering, and offered it on the rock to Yahweh: and [the angel] did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.
20
For it happened, when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, that the angel of Yahweh ascended in the flame of the altar: and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground.
21
But the angel of Yahweh did no more appear to Manoah or to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of Yahweh.
22
Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
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A cycle of sin, oppression, repentance, and deliverance in Israel’s early history.
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