Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came to me, and his face was like the face of the angel of God, very awesome; and I didn't ask him whence he was, neither did he tell me his name:
Samson’s parents were to rear him as a Nazirite from his birth. Normally Israelites assumed the Nazirite vow voluntarily and temporarily. Three laws governed the person under a Nazirite vow in addition to the other Mosaic laws. He was to eat nothing that the grapevine produced, he was to let his hair grow without ever cutting it, and he was to refrain from contact with a dead body (cf. Numbers 6:1-21). This vow placed the Nazirite in a position of separation to God in a special sense (Numbers 6:2). Abstinence from wine would have freed Samson from bondage to that drink so he could operate under the control of God’s Spirit consistently (cf. Ephesians 5:18). Long hair was important because it was a public testimony to the Nazirite’s separation to God. Contact with a corpse precluded worship at Israel’s central sanctuary temporarily, but no contact with dead bodies would enable the Nazirite to have unbroken fellowship with God.