1. And again, the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord. And he delivered them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.
2. Now there was a certain man from Zorah, and of the stock of Dan, whose name was Manoah, having a barren wife.
3. And an Angel of the Lord appeared to her, and he said: "You are barren and without children. But you shall conceive and bear a son.