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Samson's father — who had an angelic encounter and thought he was going to die
A man from the tribe of Dan whose wife was barren. The Angel of the LORD appeared to her (and later to Manoah) announcing that she would bear a son who would be a Nazirite and begin to deliver Israel from the Philistines (Judges 13) — after the angel ascended in the flame of the altar, Manoah said to his wife 'We shall surely die, for we have seen God.' She calmly pointed out that God probably wouldn't have told them all this just to kill them.
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Manoah is introduced as a Danite from Zorah whose wife is barren — an ordinary man whose household is about to become the unlikely origin point of Israel's next great deliverer.
Let Me Die With the PhilistinesJudges 16:28-31Manoah is referenced at the burial — the man who received the angelic announcement of Samson's birth now provides the tomb where his son's story ends, closing the generational arc from miraculous promise to tragic fulfillment.
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