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The Birth of Samson

13 [a]And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.

And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Mano′ah; and his wife was barren and had no children.

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Footnotes

  1. 13.1 The “Samson cycle” (chapters 13–16) is built on the theme of the broken vow; cf. 13.4-5. This gives a religious character to what otherwise has the appearance of profane literature.

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