Abraham Intercedes for Sodom

16 Then the men rose from there and looked toward Sodom, and Abraham went with them (A)to send them on the way.

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22 Then the men turned away from there (A)and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the Lord.

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24 Then Jacob was left alone; and (A)a Man wrestled with him until the [a]breaking of day.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 32:24 dawn

The Commander of the Army of the Lord

13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, (A)a Man stood opposite him (B)with His sword drawn in His hand. And Joshua went to Him and said to Him, “Are You for us or for our adversaries?”

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So the woman came and told her husband, saying, (A)“A Man of God came to me, and His (B)countenance[a] was like the countenance of the Angel of God, very awesome; but I (C)did not ask Him where He was from, and He did not tell me His name. And He said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. Now drink no wine or similar drink, nor eat anything unclean, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’ ”

Then Manoah prayed to the Lord, and said, “O my Lord, please let the Man of God whom You sent come to us again and teach us what we shall do for the child who will be born.”

And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the Angel of God came to the woman again as she was sitting in the field; but Manoah her husband was not with her. 10 Then the woman ran in haste and told her husband, and said to him, “Look, the Man who came to me the other day has just now appeared to me!”

11 So Manoah arose and followed his wife. When he came to the Man, he said to Him, “Are You the Man who spoke to this woman?”

And He said, “I am.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 13:6 appearance

(A)Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing (B)some have unwittingly entertained angels.

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