Build a well-constructed altar to the Lord your God on the top of this mound. Take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah pole you cut down.’

whoever comes out the doors of my house to greet me when I return safely from the Ammonites will belong to the Lord, and I will offer that person as a burnt offering.’

The angel of the Lord said to him, ‘If I stay, I won’t eat your food. But if you want to prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the Lord.’ (Manoah did not know he was the angel of the Lord.)

Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the Lord, who did something miraculous while Manoah and his wife were watching.

But his wife said to him, ‘If the Lord had intended to kill us, he wouldn’t have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us, and he would not have shown us all these things or spoken to us like this.’

The whole Israelite army went to Bethel where they wept and sat before the Lord. They fasted that day until evening and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to the Lord.

The next day the people got up early, built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings.