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Judges 13:23
“But his wife said to him, "If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn't have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.”
Verse in context — Judges 13
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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But his wife said to him, "If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn't have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.
24
The woman bore a son, and named him Samson: and the child grew, and Yahweh blessed him.
25
The Spirit of Yahweh began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
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A cycle of sin, oppression, repentance, and deliverance in Israel’s early history.
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