Judges 13 Free Bible Version
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1 The Israelites continued to do what was evil in the Lord's sight, so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines to rule them for forty years.
1 Y LOS hijos de Israel tornaron á hacer lo malo en los ojos de Jehová; y Jehová los entregó en mano de los Filisteos, por cuarenta años.
1 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
2 At that time there was a man named Manoah. He was from the tribe of Dan and lived in the town of Zorah. His wife couldn't conceive and had no children.
2 Y había un hombre de Sora, de la tribu de Dan, el cual se llamaba Manoa; y su mujer era estéril, que nunca había parido.
2 There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and childless.
3 The Angel of the Lord appeared to her and told her, “It's true that you couldn't conceive, and have no children, but now you're going to become pregnant and give birth to a son.
3 A [esta] mujer apareció el ángel de Jehová, y díjole: He aquí que tú eres estéril, y no has parido; mas concebirás y parirás un hijo.
3 Yahweh’s angel appeared to the woman, and said to her, “See now, you are barren and childless; but you shall conceive and bear a son.
4 So then please be careful not to drink any wine or other alcoholic drink, and don't eat anything unclean.
4 Ahora, pues, mira que ahora no bebas vino, ni sidra, ni comas cosa inmunda.
4 Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don’t eat any unclean thing;
5 You're going to become pregnant and have a son whose head a razor must never touch, because the boy is to be a Nazirite, dedicated to God from birth. He will start the process of saving Israel from the Philistines.”
5 Porque tú te harás embarazada, y parirás un hijo: y no subirá navaja sobre su cabeza, porque aquel niño será Nazareo á Dios desde el vientre, y él comenzará á salvar á Israel de mano de los Filisteos.
5 for, behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son. No razor shall come on his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb. He shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”
6 The woman went and told her husband, “A man of God came to me. He looked like the Angel of God, really frightening. I didn't ask him where he came from, and he didn't tell me his name.
6 Y la mujer vino y contólo á su marido, diciendo: Un varón de Dios vino á mí, cuyo aspecto era como el aspecto de un ángel de Dios, terrible en gran manera; y no le pregunté de dónde ni quién era, ni tampoco él me dijo su nombre.
6 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, “A man of God came to me, and his face was like the face of the angel of God, very awesome. I didn’t ask him where he was from, neither did he tell me his name;
7 But he told me, ‘You're going to become pregnant and give birth to a son. You must not drink wine or any other alcoholic drink, and don't eat anything unclean. For the boy is to be a Nazirite, dedicated to God from birth until the day of his death.’”
7 Y díjome: He aquí que tú concebirás, y parirás un hijo: por tanto, ahora no bebas vino, ni sidra, ni comas cosa inmunda; porque este niño desde el vientre será Nazareo á Dios hasta el día de su muerte.
7 but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink. Don’t eat any unclean thing, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”
8 Then Manoah prayed to the Lord, “Please, Lord, let the man of God you sent us return to us to explain what we're supposed to do with the boy who is to be born.”
8 Entonces oró Manoa á Jehová, y dijo: Ah, Señor mío, yo te ruego que aquel varón de Dios que enviaste, torne ahora á venir á nosotros, y nos enseñe lo que hayamos de hacer con el niño que ha de nacer.
8 Then Manoah entreated Yahweh, and said, “Oh, Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us, and teach us what we should do to the child who shall be born.”
9 God responded to Manoah's request, and the Angel of God returned to the woman while she was sitting out in the field. However, her husband Manoah was not with her.
9 Y Dios oyó la voz de Manoa: y el ángel de Dios volvió otra vez á la mujer, estando ella en el campo; mas su marido Manoa no estaba con ella.
9 God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field; but Manoah, her husband, wasn’t with her.
10 So she ran quickly to tell her husband, “Look! The man who appeared to me the other day has come back!”
10 Y la mujer corrió prontamente, y noticiólo á su marido, diciéndole: Mira que se me ha aparecido aquel varón que vino á mí el [otro] día.
10 The woman hurried and ran, and told her husband, saying to him, “Behold, the man who came to me that day has appeared to me.”
11 Manoah got up and went back with his wife, and asked, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife before?” “Yes I am,” he replied.
11 Y levantóse Manoa, y siguió á su mujer; y así que llegó al varón, díjole: ¿Eres tú aquel varón que hablaste á la mujer? Y él dijo: Yo soy.
11 Manoah arose and followed his wife, and came to the man, and said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?” He said, “I am.”
12 So Manoah said, “May your promise come true! What shall be decided for the boy, and what is to be his vocation?”
12 Entonces Manoa dijo: Cúmplase pues tu palabra. ¿Qué orden se tendrá con el niño, y qué ha de hacer?
12 Manoah said, “Now let your words happen. What shall the child’s way of life and mission be?”
13 “Make sure your wife is careful to follow everything I told her,” the angel of the Lord replied.
13 Y el ángel de Jehová respondió á Manoa: La mujer se guardará de todas las cosas que yo le dije:
13 Yahweh’s angel said to Manoah, “Of all that I said to the woman let her beware.
14 “She must not eat anything that comes from the vine or drink wine or any other alcoholic drink. She must not eat anything unclean. Your wife must follow everything I instructed her to do.”
14 Ella no comerá cosa que proceda de vid [que da] vino; no beberá vino ni sidra, y no comerá cosa inmunda: ha de guardar todo lo que le mandé.
14 She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing. Let her observe all that I commanded her.”
15 Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, “Please let us keep you here while we prepare a meal of a young goat for you.”
15 Entonces Manoa dijo al ángel de Jehová: Ruégote permitas que te detengamos, y aderezaremos un cabrito [que poner] delante de ti.
15 Manoah said to Yahweh’s angel, “Please stay with us, that we may make a young goat ready for you.”
16 The angel of the Lord replied, “I'll stay, but I won't eat your food. However, if you prepare a burnt offering, you can present it to the Lord.” (Manoah didn't know he was the angel of the Lord.)
16 Y el ángel de Jehová respondió á Manoa: Aunque me detengas no comeré de tu pan: mas si quisieres hacer holocausto, sacrifícalo á Jehová. Y no sabía Manoa que aquél fuese ángel de Jehová.
16 Yahweh’s angel said to Manoah, “Though you detain me, I won’t eat your bread. If you will prepare a burnt offering, you must offer it to Yahweh.” For Manoah didn’t know that he was Yahweh’s angel.
17 Manoah asked the angel of the Lord, “What is your name, so when your promise comes true we may honor you?”
17 Entonces dijo Manoa al ángel de Jehová: ¿Cómo es tu nombre, para que cuando se cumpliere tu palabra te honremos?
17 Manoah said to Yahweh’s angel, “What is your name, that when your words happen, we may honor you?”
18 “Why do you ask this?” the angel of the Lord responded. “My name is beyond comprehension.”
18 Y el ángel de Jehová respondió: ¿Por qué preguntas por mi nombre, que es oculto?
18 Yahweh’s angel said to him, “Why do you ask about my name, since it is incomprehensible?”
19 Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and presented them on a rock to the Lord. As Manoah and his wife watched, the Lord did something amazing.
19 Y Manoa tomó un cabrito de las cabras y un presente, y sacrificólo sobre una peña á Jehová: y [el ángel] hizo milagro á vista de Manoa y de su mujer.
19 So Manoah took the young goat with the meal offering, and offered it on the rock to Yahweh. Then the angel did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched.
20 As the flame from the altar blazed up into the sky, the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame. Manoah and his wife saw what happened and fell with their faces to the ground.
20 Porque aconteció que como la llama subía del altar hacia el cielo, el ángel de Jehová subió en la llama del altar á vista de Manoa y de su mujer, los cuales se postraron en tierra sobre sus rostros.
20 For when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, Yahweh’s angel ascended in the flame of the altar. Manoah and his wife watched; and they fell on their faces to the ground.
21 The angel of the Lord did not appear to Manoah or his wife again, and Manoah realized that he was the angel of the Lord.
21 Y el ángel de Jehová no tornó á aparecer á Manoa ni á su mujer. Entonces conoció Manoa que era el ángel de Jehová.
21 But Yahweh’s angel didn’t appear to Manoah or to his wife any more. Then Manoah knew that he was Yahweh’s angel.
22 “We're definitely going to die,” he told his wife, “for we have seen God!”
22 Y dijo Manoa á su mujer: Ciertamente moriremos, porque á Dios hemos visto.
22 Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, because we have seen God.”
23 But his wife replied, “If the Lord had wanted to kill us he wouldn't have accepted our burnt offering and grain offering. He wouldn't have shown us all these things, and he wouldn't have come now and announced this to us.”
23 Y su mujer le respondió: Si Jehová nos quisiera matar, no tomara de nuestras manos el holocausto y el presente, ni nos hubiera mostrado todas estas cosas, ni en tal tiempo nos habría anunciado esto.
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, and he wouldn’t have shown us all these things, nor would he have told us such things as these at this time.”
24 She gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The boy grew up, and the Lord blessed him.
24 Y la mujer parió un hijo, y llamóle por nombre Samsón. Y el niño creció, y Jehová lo bendijo.
24 The woman bore a son and named him Samson. The child grew, and Yahweh blessed him.
25 The Spirit of the Lord began to prompt him at Mahaneh Dan, a place between Zorah and Eshtaol.
25 Y el espíritu de Jehová comenzó á manifestarse en él en los campamentos de Dan, entre Sora y Esthaol.
25 Yahweh’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
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Manoah
Danite from Zorah whose barren wife was promised a son by the angel of the LORD, who prayed for guidance in raising the boy, offered a burnt offering, and was buried in the tomb…
Cited in the guide: Judges 13:2; Judges 13:8; Judges 13:19
Samson
Nazirite from the womb, born to Manoah and his wife in answer to the angel's promise, whom the Spirit of the LORD empowered to strike the Philistines, who judged Israel twenty…
Cited in the guide: Judges 13:24; Judges 14:1; Judges 15:20
Cross references (23)
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- 1 1 Samuel 12:9; Judges 6:1; Romans 2:6; Judges 3:7; Judges 2:11
- 2 Joshua 19:41; Joshua 15:33; Luke 1:7; Genesis 25:21; Genesis 16:1
- 3 Luke 1:13; Luke 1:11; Judges 6:11–12; Genesis 18:10; 2 Kings 4:16
- 4 Luke 1:15; Judges 13:14; Numbers 6:2–3; Judges 13:7; Leviticus 11:47
- 5 Numbers 6:5; 1 Samuel 1:11; Numbers 6:2–3; 1 Chronicles 18:1; 1 Samuel 7:13
- 6 Matthew 28:3–4; Judges 13:17–18; 1 Samuel 9:6; Revelation 1:17; Luke 9:29
- 7 Judges 13:4
- 8 Acts 9:6; Job 34:32; Proverbs 3:5–6
- 9 Psalm 65:2; Matthew 7:7–11
- 10 John 1:41–42; John 4:28–29
- 12 Ephesians 6:4; Proverbs 22:6; Genesis 18:19; Proverbs 4:4
- 14 Deuteronomy 12:32; John 2:5; Judges 13:4; 2 Thessalonians 3:4; John 15:14
- 15 Genesis 18:3–5; Judges 13:3; Judges 6:18–19
- 16 Judges 13:23; Judges 6:20; Judges 6:26
- 17 Genesis 32:29
- 18 Genesis 32:29; Isaiah 9:6; Judges 13:6
- 19 Judges 6:19–21; 1 Kings 18:30–38
- 20 Leviticus 9:24; 2 Kings 2:11; 1 Chronicles 21:16; Ezekiel 1:28; Matthew 17:6
- 21 Judges 6:22; Hosea 12:4–5; Judges 13:16
- 22 Genesis 32:30; Deuteronomy 5:26; John 1:18; Exodus 33:20; John 5:37
- 23 Psalm 25:14; 1 Corinthians 12:21; Psalm 86:17; John 15:15; John 14:20
- 24 Luke 1:80; 1 Samuel 3:19; Hebrews 11:32; Luke 2:52
- 25 Judges 3:10; Joshua 15:33; John 3:34; 1 Samuel 11:6; Matthew 4:1
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… not amazed at Manoah the Judge of yore, and at Peter the disciple in later days; the one being unable to endure the sight even of one in whom was a representation of God; and saying, "We are undone, O wife, we have seen God;" speaking as though even a vision of God could not be grasped by human beings, …
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