1. Again the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord gave them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.
2. There was a certain man from Zorah, from the tribe of Dan. His name was Manoah. His wife was infertile and had borne no children.
3. The angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, “Indeed, you are infertile and have borne no children, yet you will conceive and bear a son.