Manoah

Manoah is a Samson's father living before Israel's monarchy. He is named in 14 verses of the Bible, first in Judges 13:2.

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Verses

Judges

• Judges 13:2
  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.Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.
• Judges 13:8
  Then Manoah intreated the Lord, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, “Please, O Lord, let the man of God You sent us come to us again to teach us how to raise the boy who is to be born.”
• Judges 13:9
  And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband was not with her.And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God returned to the woman as she was sitting in the field; but her husband Manoah was not with her.
• Judges 13:11
  And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am.So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he asked, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?” “I am,” he said.
• Judges 13:12
  And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?Then Manoah asked, “When your words come to pass, what will be the boy’s rule of life and mission?”
• Judges 13:13
  And the angel of the Lord said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware.So the angel of the LORD answered Manoah, “Your wife is to do everything I told her.
• Judges 13:15
  And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.“Please stay here,” Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “and we will prepare a young goat for you.”
• Judges 13:16
  And the angel of the Lord said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the Lord. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the Lord.And the angel of the LORD replied, “Even if I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the LORD.” For Manoah did not know that it was the angel of the LORD.
• Judges 13:17
  And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?Then Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “What is your name, so that we may honor you when your word comes to pass?”
• Judges 13:19
  So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the Lord: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.Then Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the LORD. And as Manoah and his wife looked on, the LORD did a marvelous thing.
• Judges 13:20
  For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.When the flame went up from the altar to the sky, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown to the ground.
• Judges 13:21
  But the angel of the Lord did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the Lord.And when the angel of the LORD did not appear again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized that it had been the angel of the LORD.
• Judges 13:22
  And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.“We are going to die,” he said to his wife, “for we have seen God!”
• Judges 16:31
  Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.Then Samson’s brothers and his father’s family came down, carried him back, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. And he had judged Israel twenty years.

Notes

1. Names, family links and verses from STEPBible's Translators Individualised Proper Names (TIPNR), STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0.
2. Where several people share a name, which verses belong to which person, and the family links, follow STEPBible's identifications; some are uncertain and are marked so.