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Luke 1:13
But the angel said to him:“ Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John. (niv)
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Luke 1:11
Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense. (niv)
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Judges 6:11-12
The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites.When the angel of the Lord appeared to Gideon, he said,“ The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.” (niv)
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Judges 2:1
The angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said,“ I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land I swore to give to your ancestors. I said,‘ I will never break my covenant with you, (niv)
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Judges 13:8
Then Manoah prayed to the Lord:“ Pardon your servant, Lord. I beg you to let the man of God you sent to us come again to teach us how to bring up the boy who is to be born.” (niv)
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Genesis 18:10
Then one of them said,“ I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.” Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him. (niv)
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1 Samuel 1 20
So in the course of time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying,“ Because I asked the Lord for him.” (niv)
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2 Kings 4 16
“ About this time next year,” Elisha said,“ you will hold a son in your arms.”“ No, my lord!” she objected.“ Please, man of God, don’t mislead your servant!” (niv)
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Judges 13:6
Then the woman went to her husband and told him,“ A man of God came to me. He looked like an angel of God, very awesome. I didn’t ask him where he came from, and he didn’t tell me his name. (niv)
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Judges 13:10
The woman hurried to tell her husband,“ He’s here! The man who appeared to me the other day!” (niv)
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Genesis 17:16
I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.” (niv)
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Genesis 16:7-13
The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur.And he said,“ Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?”“ I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.Then the angel of the Lord told her,“ Go back to your mistress and submit to her.”The angel added,“ I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”The angel of the Lord also said to her:“ You are now pregnant and you will give birth to a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard of your misery.He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone’s hand against him, and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers.”She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her:“ You are the God who sees me,” for she said,“ I have now seen the One who sees me.” (niv)
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Luke 1:28-38
The angel went to her and said,“ Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be.But the angel said to her,“ Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God.You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus.He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David,and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”“ How will this be,” Mary asked the angel,“ since I am a virgin?”The angel answered,“ The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month.For no word from God will ever fail.”“ I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered.“ May your word to me be fulfilled.” Then the angel left her. (niv)