1. The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
2. There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and childless.
3. the Lord’s angel appeared to the woman, and said to her, “See now, you are barren and childless; but you shall conceive, and bear a son.