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Luke 1:13
But the angel said,“ Don’t be afraid, Zechariah! God has heard your prayer. Your wife, Elizabeth, will give you a son, and you are to name him John.
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Luke 1:11
While Zechariah was in the sanctuary, an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing to the right of the incense altar.
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Judges 6:11-12
Then the angel of the Lord came and sat beneath the great tree at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash of the clan of Abiezer. Gideon son of Joash was threshing wheat at the bottom of a winepress to hide the grain from the Midianites.The angel of the Lord appeared to him and said,“ Mighty hero, the Lord is with you!”
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Judges 2:1
The angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said to the Israelites,“ I brought you out of Egypt into this land that I swore to give your ancestors, and I said I would never break my covenant with you.
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Judges 13:8
Then Manoah prayed to the Lord, saying,“ Lord, please let the man of God come back to us again and give us more instructions about this son who is to be born.”
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Genesis 18:10
Then one of them said,“ I will return to you about this time next year, and your wife, Sarah, will have a son!” Sarah was listening to this conversation from the tent.
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1 Samuel 1 20
and in due time she gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, for she said,“ I asked the Lord for him.”
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2 Kings 4 16
“ Next year at this time you will be holding a son in your arms!”“ No, my lord!” she cried.“ O man of God, don’t deceive me and get my hopes up like that.”
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Judges 13:6
The woman ran and told her husband,“ A man of God appeared to me! He looked like one of God’s angels, terrifying to see. I didn’t ask where he was from, and he didn’t tell me his name.
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Judges 13:10
So she quickly ran and told her husband,“ The man who appeared to me the other day is here again!”
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Genesis 17:16
And I will bless her and give you a son from her! Yes, I will bless her richly, and she will become the mother of many nations. Kings of nations will be among her descendants.”
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Genesis 16:7-13
The angel of the Lord found Hagar beside a spring of water in the wilderness, along the road to Shur.The angel said to her,“ Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where have you come from, and where are you going?”“ I’m running away from my mistress, Sarai,” she replied.The angel of the Lord said to her,“ Return to your mistress, and submit to her authority.”Then he added,“ I will give you more descendants than you can count.”And the angel also said,“ You are now pregnant and will give birth to a son. You are to name him Ishmael( which means‘ God hears’), for the Lord has heard your cry of distress.This son of yours will be a wild man, as untamed as a wild donkey! He will raise his fist against everyone, and everyone will be against him. Yes, he will live in open hostility against all his relatives.”Thereafter, Hagar used another name to refer to the Lord, who had spoken to her. She said,“ You are the God who sees me.” She also said,“ Have I truly seen the One who sees me?”
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Luke 1:28-38
Gabriel appeared to her and said,“ Greetings, favored woman! The Lord is with you!”Confused and disturbed, Mary tried to think what the angel could mean.“ Don’t be afraid, Mary,” the angel told her,“ for you have found favor with God!You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus.He will be very great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David.And he will reign over Israel forever; his Kingdom will never end!”Mary asked the angel,“ But how can this happen? I am a virgin.”The angel replied,“ The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the baby to be born will be holy, and he will be called the Son of God.What’s more, your relative Elizabeth has become pregnant in her old age! People used to say she was barren, but she has conceived a son and is now in her sixth month.For the word of God will never fail.”Mary responded,“ I am the Lord’s servant. May everything you have said about me come true.” And then the angel left her.