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Luke 1:13
But the angel said to him,“ Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son; you will name him John.
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Luke 1:11
An angel of the Lord, standing on the right side of the altar of incense, appeared to him.
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Judges 6:11-12
The LORD’s angelic messenger came and sat down under the oak tree in Ophrah owned by Joash the Abiezrite. He arrived while Joash’s son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress so he could hide it from the Midianites.The LORD’s messenger appeared and said to him,“ The LORD is with you, courageous warrior!”
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Judges 2:1
The LORD’s angelic messenger went up from Gilgal to Bokim. He said,“ I brought you up from Egypt and led you into the land I had solemnly promised to give to your ancestors. I said,‘ I will never break my agreement with you,
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Judges 13:8
Manoah prayed to the LORD,“ Please, Lord, allow the man sent from God to visit us again, so he can teach us how we should raise the child who will be born.”
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Genesis 18:10
One of them said,“ I will surely return to you when the season comes round again, and your wife Sarah will have a son!”( Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, not far behind him.
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1 Samuel 1 20
After some time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, thinking,“ I asked the LORD for him.
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2 Kings 4 16
He said,“ About this time next year you will be holding a son.” She said,“ No, my master! O prophet, do not lie to your servant!”
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Judges 13:6
The woman went and said to her husband,“ A man sent from God came to me! He looked like God’s angelic messenger– he was very awesome. I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name.
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Judges 13:10
The woman ran at once and told her husband,“ Come quickly, the man who visited me the other day has appeared to me!”
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Genesis 17:16
I will bless her and will give you a son through her. I will bless her and she will become a mother of nations. Kings of countries will come from her!”
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Genesis 16:7-13
The LORD’s angel found Hagar near a spring of water in the desert– the spring that is along the road to Shur.He said,“ Hagar, servant of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” She replied,“ I’m running away from my mistress, Sarai.”Then the LORD’s angel said to her,“ Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.I will greatly multiply your descendants,” the LORD’s angel added,“ so that they will be too numerous to count.”Then the LORD’s angel said to her,“ You are now pregnant and are about to give birth to a son. You are to name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your painful groans.He will be a wild donkey of a man. He will be hostile to everyone, and everyone will be hostile to him. He will live away from his brothers.”So Hagar named the LORD who spoke to her,“ You are the God who sees me,” for she said,“ Here I have seen one who sees me!”
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Luke 1:28-38
The angel came to her and said,“ Greetings, favored one, the Lord is with you!”But she was greatly troubled by his words and began to wonder about the meaning of this greeting.So the angel said to her,“ Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God!Listen: You will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus.He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David.He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and his kingdom will never end.”Mary said to the angel,“ How will this be, since I have not had sexual relations with a man?”The angel replied,“ The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called the Son of God.“ And look, your relative Elizabeth has also become pregnant with a son in her old age– although she was called barren, she is now in her sixth month!For nothing will be impossible with God.”So Mary said,“ Yes, I am a servant of the Lord; let this happen to me according to your word.” Then the angel departed from her.