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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Manoah (Samson's father living before Israel's Monarchy)
Samson's father. An angel came to him and his wife, who had no children, to say a son was coming who would be a Nazirite from birth, and when Manoah realised who he had seen he was sure they would both die.
Samson's father. An angel came to him and his wife, who had no children, to say a son was coming who would be a Nazirite from birth, and when Manoah realised who he had seen he was sure they would both die.
Manoah was Samson's father, and an angel appeared to him and his previously childless wife to announce Samson's birth and his lifelong Nazirite calling, an encounter so overwhelming that Manoah feared they would die for having seen God.
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- Judges 13:2
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- Judges 16:31
