An angel(A) of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.

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The Angel of the Lord at Bokim

The angel of the Lord(A) went up from Gilgal(B) to Bokim(C) and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt(D) and led you into the land I swore to give to your ancestors.(E) I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you,(F)

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Then the angel of the Lord told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.”

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11 The angel of the Lord(A) also said to her:

“You are now pregnant
    and you will give birth to a son.(B)
You shall name him(C) Ishmael,[a](D)
    for the Lord has heard of your misery.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 16:11 Ishmael means God hears.

11 But the angel of the Lord(A) called out to him from heaven,(B) “Abraham! Abraham!”(C)

“Here I am,”(D) he replied.

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10 The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”(A)

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16 “Come out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and their wives.(A)

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Moses also said, “You will know that it was the Lord when he gives you meat to eat in the evening and all the bread you want in the morning, because he has heard your grumbling(A) against him. Who are we? You are not grumbling against us, but against the Lord.”(B)

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31 and said, ‘Cornelius, God has heard your prayer and remembered your gifts to the poor.

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27 But some scoundrels(A) said, “How can this fellow save us?” They despised him and brought him no gifts.(B) But Saul kept silent.

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“How can this be?”(A) Nicodemus asked.

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18 Zechariah asked the angel, “How can I be sure of this?(A) I am an old man and my wife is well along in years.”(B)

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But Herod said, “I beheaded John. Who, then, is this I hear such things about?” And he tried to see him.(A)

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39 David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them.

“I cannot go in these,” he said to Saul, “because I am not used to them.” So he took them off.

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Mordecai had a cousin named Hadassah, whom he had brought up because she had neither father nor mother. This young woman, who was also known as Esther,(A) had a lovely figure(B) and was beautiful. Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter when her father and mother died.

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63 He asked for a writing tablet, and to everyone’s astonishment he wrote, “His name is John.”(A)

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Fulfill Your Vow to God

[a]Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 5:1 In Hebrew texts 5:1 is numbered 4:17, and 5:2-20 is numbered 5:1-19.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins(A) and purify us from all unrighteousness.(B)

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21 If their children are honored, they do not know it;
    if their offspring are brought low, they do not see it.(A)

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22 But the men will agree to live with us as one people only on the condition that our males be circumcised,(A) as they themselves are.

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