Judges 13:17-23

Stunned, Manoah asked the Angel of YAHWEH. “What is your name? When YAHWEH fulfills your prophecy, we want to honor you!” The Angel of YAHWEH replied, “Why ask for my name? It is ‘Wonderfully Hidden!’ ” So Manoah prepared the young goat and his grain offering and took them to the rock to offer them up to YAHWEH, the wonder-working God. While Manoah and his wife watched, flames burst from the rock and ascended upward to heaven from the altar. The Angel of YAHWEH, wrapped in the flames of fire, ascended into the sky. Dazed, Manoah and his wife fell facedown to the ground in worship. Only then did Manoah realize that he had met the Angel of YAHWEH! He turned to his wife and said, “We’re as good as dead! God has just visited us!” But his wife said, “If YAHWEH had planned to kill us, he wouldn’t have accepted our burnt offering and our grain offering. He wouldn’t have revealed all these things to us or have spoken to us as he did just now.” And Manoah and his wife never encountered YAHWEH’s Angel again.