Through the Bible in a Year — 2026-070

And the sons of Israel added to do what was evil against the Lord, and the Lord gave

them up in the hand of allophiles forty years.

And there was a man of Sarah of the tribe of Dan, and his name was Manoa, and his wife

was barren and was not barring, and an angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said

to her, see now you are barren and have not born, and you shall become pregnant and

bear a son, and now be careful, and do not drink wine and secara, and do not eat anything

unclean, for see you shall become pregnant and bear a son, and iron shall not come upon

his head, for the boy shall be sanctified, a Nazarite to God from the womb, and he it

is, who shall begin to deliver Israel from the hand of allophiles.

And the woman came and said to her husband, saying, a man of God came to me, and the seeing

of him was like the seeing of an angel of God, most remarkable, and I asked where he came

from, and he did not tell me his name.

And he said to me, see you shall become pregnant and bear a son, and now drink no wine and

secara, and eat no uncleanness, for the boy shall be a Nazarite of God from the womb

to the day of his death.

And Manoa entreated the Lord and said, by me, Lord, do let the man of God whom you sent

to us come to us, and enlighten us about what we are to do for the boy who is being born.

And God heard Manoa's voice, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat

in the field, but her husband Manoa was not with her, and the woman hurried and ran off

and told her husband, see the man who came to me the other day has appeared to me.

And Manoa got up and went after his wife towards the man and said to him, are you the

man who spoke to this woman?

And the angel said, I am, and Manoa said, now then, when your word comes, what shall

be the boy's judgment, and what will his works be?

And the angel of the Lord said to Manoa, let him keep away from all things that I spoke

to the woman about.

He shall not eat of anything that comes from the vine, and he is not to drink wine and

secara, and he is not to eat any unclean thing.

He is to observe everything that I commanded her.

And Manoa said to the angel of the Lord, let us then constrain you, and we will prepare

a kid of goats before you.

In the angel of the Lord said to Manoa, if you constrain me, I will not eat of your loaves,

and if you make a whole bird offering, you shall offer it to the Lord.

For Manoa did not know that he was an angel of the Lord.

And Manoa said to the angel of the Lord, what is your name so that we may honor you when

your word comes?

And the angel of the Lord said to him, why do you ask this my name, even by itself it

is amazing?

And Manoa took the kid of goats and the sacrifice, and offered it on the rock to the Lord, to

the Lord who works wonders.

And Manoa and his wife were looking on, and it came about when the flame went up above

the altar toward the sky, that the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame.

And Manoa and his wife were looking on, and they fell on their face to the ground.

And the angel of the Lord did not add still to appear to Manoa and to his wife.

Then Manoa realized that it was an angel of the Lord, and Manoa said to his wife, we

shall die by death, for we have seen a God.

And his wife said to him, if the Lord had desired to kill us, he would not have accepted

a whole bird offering and a sacrifice from our hands.

And he would not have enlightened us about all these things, and he would not have made

them audible to us.

And the woman bore a son and called his name, Samson.

And the Lord blessed him and the boy grew, and the spirit of the Lord began to accompany

him in the camp of Dan, between Sarah and Eshkol.

And Samson went down to Tomnatha, and at Tomnatha he saw woman of the daughters of the

Allophiles, and she was pleasing before him.

And he came up and told his father and his mother and said, I have seen a woman at Tomnatha,

of the daughters of the Allophiles, and now get her for me for a wife.

And his father and his mother said to him, is there not a woman of your brother's daughters

and among all my people, that you will go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Allophiles?

And Samson said to his father, get this one for me because she was pleasing in my sight.

And his father and his mother did not know that it was from the Lord, for he himself

was seeking requital from the Allophiles, and at that time Allophiles had dominion over

the sons of Israel.

And Samson went down and his father and his mother to Tomnatha, and he turned aside into

the vineyard of Tomnatha, and see a wealth of lions roaring to meet him, and a spirit

of the Lord made straight for him, and he tore it apart as he would tear apart a kid

of goats, and there was nothing in his hand.

And he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.

And they went down and talked with the woman, and she was pleasing before Samson.

And after days he returned to marry her, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the

lion, and see a swarm of bees in the mouth of the lion, and there was honey.

And he took it out into his mouth and went on, going and eating.

And he came to his father and to his mother, and he gave to them and they ate.

And he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the condition of the lion.

And his father went down to the woman, and Samson held a drinking party there for seven

days, because the young men would do thus.

And it came about when they were afraid of him, that they appointed thirty companions

for him, and they were with him.

And Samson said to them, I will set you a problem, and if you tell me the problem within

the seven days of the drinking party, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty

robes.

And if you cannot tell me, you shall also give me thirty linen garments, and thirty

robes used as outer garments.

And they said to him, set your problem, and we will hear it.

And he said to them, out of the eater came forth food, and out of the strong one came

forth something sweet.

And for three days they could not tell the problem.

And it came about in the fourth day that they said to Samson's wife, do deceive your husband

and let him tell you the problem, or we will burn you in your father's house with fire.

Did you invite us to be beggars?

And Samson's wife wept before him and said to him, you hate me and you do not love me,

for the problem which you set for the sons of my people, even to me you have not told

it.

And Samson said to her, look, I have not told it to my father or my mother, and am I going

to tell you.

And she wept before him during the seven days, them on which there was a party.

And it came about in the seventh day that he told her because she exasperated him.

And she told the sons of her people, and the men of the city said to him in the seventh

day before the sun went down, what is sweeter than honey and what is stronger than a lion.

And Samson said to them, if you had not tamed my heifer, you would not have found my problem.

And his spirit of the Lord made straight for him, and he went down to Ash Kalan.

And from there he struck down thirty men and took their robes, and gave them to those

who had told the problem.

And Samson was furiously angry, and he went back to his father's house.

And Samson's wife lived with his bridal escort, who was his companion.

And it came about after days, during the days of the wheat harvest, that Samson went

to visit his wife, bringing along a kid of goats.

And he said, I will go in to my wife into the bedroom.

And her father would not allow him to go into her.

And her father said, saying, I said that hating you hated her, and I gave her to your companion.

See is not her younger sister better than she, do let her be to you in her stead.

And Samson said to him, I am without blame from the allophiles this once, for the fact

that I do mischief with you.

And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes and took torches, and he bound them tail

to tail, and put one torch between the two tails in the middle.

And he said, fire to the torches, and he sent the foxes off into the standing grain of

the allophiles, and burned up the ears of grain, and what had been previously harvested,

from the sheaf up to what stood, and up to vineyard and olive trees.

And the allophiles said, who has done these things.

And they said, Samson, the son-in-law of the tamnithite, because he took his wife and

gave her to his companion.

And the allophiles came up and burned her father's house, along with her and her father with

fire.

And Samson said to them, if you act thus, I will not be content unless I take my revenge

from each and every one of you.

And he struck them on the thigh a great blow, and he went down and was staying by the

wadi in the cave of a tamn.

And the allophiles came up and encamped against Judah, and they were thrown back at leaky.

And they, every man of Judah, said to them, why have you come up against us?

And the allophiles said, to bind Samson and to do to him as he did to us.

And three thousand men of Judah went down to the hole in the rock of a tamn, and they

said to Samson, do you not know that the allophiles are ruling over us?

And why have you done these things to us?

And Samson said to them, as they did to us, so I have done to them.

And they said to him, we have come down to bind you and to give you into the hands of

the allophiles.

And Samson said to them, swear to me not to kill me yourselves and give me up to them,

lest you yourselves come against me.

And they swore to him, saying, no, but we will bind you with a binding and give you

into their hands, but we will not put you to death by death.

And they bound him with two new cords and led him up from the rock.

And he came by himself as far as jawbone, and the allophiles shouted and triumphed to

meet him, and ran to meet up with him, and a spirit of the Lord made straight for him,

and the cords that were on his arms became like flax when it smells fire, and the bonds

were loose from his arms.

And he found a jawbone of a donkey thrown by the wayside, and stretched out his hand and

took it.

And with it he struck down a thousand men.

And Samson said, I have wiped them out, wiping them out with a donkey's jawbone, for

with a donkey's jawbone I have struck down a thousand men.

And it came about when he had finished speaking that he threw the jawbone from his hand, and

he called that place jawbone slaying.

And he was very thirsty, and he called out to the Lord and said, You have granted this

great deliverance by your hand of your slave, and now shall I die by thirst and fall in

the hand of the uncircumcised.

And God opened the wound of the jawbone, and waters came from it.

And he drank and his spirit returned in him, and he revived.

Therefore its name was called Spring Summoned by Jawbone, as it remains to this day.

And he judged Israel in the days of the Allophiles 20 years.