Judges 13
1 और इस्राएलियों ने फिर यहोवा की दृष्टि में बुरा किया; इसलिये यहोवा ने उन को पलिश्तियों के वश में चालीस वर्ष के लिये रखा॥
2 दानियों के कुल का सोरावासी मानोह नाम एक पुरूष था, जिसकी पत्नी के बांझ होने के कारण कोई पुत्र न था।
3 इस स्त्री को यहोवा के दूत ने दर्शन देकर कहा, सुन, बांझ होने के कारण तेरे बच्चा नहीं; परन्तु अब तू गर्भवती होगी और तेरे बेटा होगा।
4 इसलिये अब सावधान रह, कि न तो तू दाखमधु वा और किसी भांति की मदिरा पीए, और न कोई अशुद्ध वस्तु खाए,
5 क्योंकि तू गर्भवती होगी और तेरे एक बेटा उत्पन्न होगा। और उसके सिर पर छूरा न फिरे, क्योंकि वह जन्म ही से परमेश्वर का नाजीर रहेगा; और इस्राएलियों को पलिश्तियों के हाथ से छुड़ाने में वही हाथ लगाएगा।
6 उस स्त्री ने अपने पति के पास जा कर कहा, परमेश्वर का एक जन मेरे पास आया था जिसका रूप परमेश्वर के दूत का सा अति भययोग्य था; और मैं ने उस से न पूछा कि तू कहां का है? और न उसने मुझे अपना नाम बताया;
7 परन्तु उसने मुझ से कहा, सुन तू गर्भवती होगी और तेरे एक बेटा होगा; इसलिये अब न तो दाखमधु वा और किसी भांति की मदिरा पीना, और न कोई अशुद्ध वस्तु खाना, क्योंकि वह लड़का जन्म से मरण के दिन तक परमेश्वर का नाजीर रहेगा।
8 तब मानोह ने यहोवा से यह बिनती की, कि हे प्रभु, बिनती सुन, परमेश्वर का वह जन जिसे तू ने भेजा था फिर हमारे पास आए, और हमें सिखलाए कि जो बालक उत्पन्न होने वाला है उस से हम क्या क्या करें।
9 मानोह की यह बात परमेश्वर ने सुन ली, इसलिये जब वह स्त्री मैदान में बैठी थी, और उसका पति मानोह उसके संग न था, तब परमेश्वर का वही दूत उसके पास आया।
10 तब उस स्त्री ने झट दौड़कर अपने पति को यह समाचार दिया, कि जो पुरूष उस दिन मेरे पास आया था उसी ने मुझे दर्शन दिया है।
11 यह सुनते ही मानोह उठ कर अपनी पत्नी के पीछे चला, और उस पुरूष के पास आकर पूछा, कि क्या तू वही पुरूष है जिसने इस स्त्री से बातें की थीं? उसने कहा, मैं वही हूं।
12 मानोह ने कहा, जब तेरे वचन पूरे हो जाएं तो, उस बालक का कैसा ढंग और उसका क्या काम होगा?
13 यहोवा के दूत ने मानोह से कहा, जितनी वस्तुओं की चर्चा मैं ने इस स्त्री से की थी उन सब से यह परे रहे।
14 यह कोई वस्तु जो दाखलता से उत्पन्न होती है न खाए, और न दाखमधु वा और किसी भांति की मदिरा पीए, और न कोई अशुद्ध वस्तु खाए; जो जो आज्ञा मैं ने इस को दी थी उसी को माने।
15 मानोह ने यहोवा के दूत से कहा, हम तुझ को रोक लें, कि तेरे लिये बकरी का एक बच्चा पकाकर तैयार करें।
16 यहोवा के दूत ने मानोह से कहा, चाहे तू मुझे रोक रखे, परन्तु मैं तेरे भोजन में से कुछ न खाऊंगा; और यदि तू होमबलि करना चाहे तो यहोवा ही के लिये कर। (मानोह तो न जानता था, कि यह यहोवा का दूत है।)
17 मानोह ने यहोवा के दूत से कहा, अपना नाम बता, इसलिये कि जब तेरी बातें पूरी हों तब हम तेरा आदरमान कर सकें।
18 यहोवा के दूत ने उस से कहा, मेरा नाम तो अद्भुत है, इसलिये तू उसे क्यों पूछता है?
19 तब मानोह ने अन्नबलि समेत बकरी का एक बच्चा ले कर चट्टान पर यहोवा के लिये चढ़ाया तब उस दूत ने मानोह और उसकी पत्नी के देखते देखते एक अद्भुत काम किया।
20 अर्थात जब लौ उस वेदी पर से आकाश की ओर उठ रही थी, तब यहोवा का दूत उस वेदी की लौ में हो कर मानोह और उसकी पत्नी के देखते देखते चढ़ गया; तब वे भूमि पर मुंह के बल गिरे।
21 परन्तु यहोवा के दूत ने मानोह और उसकी पत्नी को फिर कभी दर्शन न दिया। तब मानोह ने जान लिया कि वह यहोवा का दूत था।
22 तब मानोह ने अपनी पत्नी से कहा, हम निश्चय मर जाएंगे, क्योंकि हम ने परमेश्वर का दर्शन पाया है।
23 उसकी पत्नी ने उस से कहा, यदि यहोवा हमें मार डालना चाहता, तो हमारे हाथ से होमबलि और अन्नबलि ग्रहण न करता, और न वह ऐसी सब बातें हम को दिखाता, और न वह इस समय हमें ऐसी बातें सुनाता।
24 और उस स्त्री के एक बेटा उत्पन्न हुआ, और उसका नाम शिमशोन रखा; और वह बालक बढ़ता गया, और यहोवा उसको आशीष देता रहा।
25 और यहोवा का आत्मा सोरा और एशताओल के बीच महनदान में उसको उभारने लगा॥
1 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
2 And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.
3 And the angel of the Lord appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.
4 Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
5 For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.
6 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:
7 But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.
8 Then Manoah intreated the Lord, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.
9 And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband was not with her.
10 And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day.
11 And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am.
12 And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?
13 And the angel of the Lord said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware.
14 She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe.
15 And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.
16 And the angel of the Lord said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the Lord. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the Lord.
17 And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?
18 And the angel of the Lord said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?
19 So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the Lord: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.
20 For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.
21 But the angel of the Lord did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the Lord.
22 And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
23 But his wife said unto him, If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.
24 And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the Lord blessed him.
25 And the Spirit of the Lord began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
1 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.
2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
4 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.
5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.
6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.
7 For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.
9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.
12 The Lord will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto the Lord of hosts.
13 And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand.
14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
16 For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
17 Ye have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?