Scriptures

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Judges 12
¹¹ After him, Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel. He judged Israel ten years.
¹² And Elon the Zebulunite died and was buried at Aijalon in the country of Zebulun.
¹³ After him, Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.
¹⁴ He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy young donkeys. He judged Israel eight years.
¹⁵ Then Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the mountains of the Amalekites.
Judges 13
¹ Again the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
² Now there was a certain man from Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had no children.
³ And the Angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, "Indeed now, you are barren and have borne no children, but you shall conceive and bear a son.
⁴ Now therefore, please be careful not to drink wine or similar drink, and not to eat anything unclean.
⁵ For behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. And no razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines."
⁶ So the woman came and told her husband, saying, "A Man of God came to me, and His countenance was like the countenance of the Angel of God, very awesome; but I did not ask Him where He was from, and He did not tell me His name.