Judges 13:5

for thou shalt conceive, and bear a son, whose head a razor shall not touch; for he shall be a Nazarite, that is, holy of God, from his young age, and from the mother’s womb, (or for he shall be a Nazarite, that is, holy to God, from his mother’s womb); and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hand of [the] Philistines.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.

In Context

4Therefore be thou ware, lest thou drink wine, and cider (or cider), neither eat thou any unclean thing;

6And when she had come to her husband, she said to him, A man of God came to me, and he had an angel’s cheer, and he was full fearedful, (or and he had the face of an angel, and he was most frightening); and when I had asked him, who he was, and from whence he came, and by what name he was called, he would not say to me;

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Cross References

Numbers 6:2Speak thou to the sons of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, When a man either a woman maketh a vow, that they be hallowed, and they will hallow themselves to the Lord, (Say thou to the Israelites, When a man or a woman maketh a vow, that they will become a Nazarite, and they will consecrate, or will dedicate, themselves to the Lord,)

Judges 16:17(And) Then he opened the truth of the thing, and said to her, Iron came never yet upon mine head (or No iron hath ever yet touched my head), for I am a Nazarite, that is, hallowed to the Lord, from my mother’s womb; if mine head be shaven, my strength shall go away from me, and I shall fail, and I shall be (made as feeble) as other men.

1 Samuel 7:13And the Philistines were made low, and they added no more to come into the terms of Israel, (or And so the Philistines were humbled, and they did not come any more into the land of Israel). And so the hand of the Lord was made [up] on (the) Philistines in all the days of Samuel.

1 Chronicles 18:1Soothly it was done after these things, that David smote the Philistines (or that David struck the Philistines), and made them low, and he took away Gath and the villages thereof from the hand of (the) Philistines;

Matthew Henry on Judges 13:2-8

An Angel Appears to Manoah's Wife. ( b. c. 1161.) 1 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord ; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. 2 And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not. 3 And the angel of the Lord appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son. 4 Now therefore beware, I pray… Read the whole commentary →

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