1. And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord: and he delivered them into the hands of the Philistines forty years.
2. Now there was a certain man of Saraa, and of the race of Dan, whose name was Manue, and his wife was barren.
3. And an angel of the Lord appeared to her, and said: Thou art barren and without children: but thou shalt conceive and bear a son.