1. And then the People of Israel were back at it again, doing what was evil in God’s sight. God put them under the domination of the Philistines for forty years.
8. Manoah prayed to God: “Master, let the man of God you sent come to us again and teach us how to raise this boy who is to be born.”
11. Manoah got up and, following his wife, came to the man. He said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?”He said, “I am.”