23. But his wife said to him, “If the Lord had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and grain offering from our hands! Nor would he have let us see all this, or hear what we have heard.”
24. The woman bore a son and named him Samson, and when the boy grew up the Lord blessed him.
25. The spirit of the Lord came upon him for the first time in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.