Judges 13
1 Israel is delivered into the hands of Philistines.
2 An angel appears to Manoah's wife.
8 The angel appears to Manoah.
15 Manoah's sacrifices, whereby the angel is discovered.
24 Samson is born.
did <06213> [did. Heb. added to commit, etc.]
sight <05869> [in the sight.]
so <05414> [delivered.]
"This seems a partial captivity."
handed <03027> [into the.]
Zorah <06881> [Zorah.]
infertile <06135> [barren.]
messenger <04397> [the angel.]
conceive <02029> [but thou.]
drink wine <08354 03196> [drink not.]
eat ......... unclean <0398 02931> [eat not.]
[no rasor.]
begin <02490> [begin.]
husband ... man <0376> [A man.]
looked like <04758> [countenance was.]
awesome <03372> [terrible.]
ask <07592> [but I asked, etc.]
The Vulgate renders this cause very differently, the negative Not being omitted: {Quem c—m interrogƒssim quis esset, et unde venisset, et quo nomine vocaretur, noluit mihi dicere; sed hoc respondit, etc; "Whom when I asked who he was, and whence he came, and by what name he was called, would not tell me: but this he said," etc. The negative is also wanting in the Septuagint, as it is in the Complutensian Polyglott; [kai erouton auton pothen estin, kai to onoma auton, ouk apengeilen moi.] "And I asked him whence he was, and his name, but he did not tell me." This is also the reading of the Codex Alexandrinus; but the Septuagint in the London Polyglott, the Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic, read the negative particle with the Hebrew text: I asked Not his name, etc.
name <08034> [his name.]
teach ...... raise <03384 06213> [teach us.]
answered <08085> [hearkened.]
husband ..... man ...... other <0376> [Behold.]
day <03117> [the other day.]
{Byyom,} rather, "in this day," or "to-day," for the word other is not in the original, and it is probably that the angel appeared in the morning and evening of the same day.
child <04941 05288> [How shall we order the child. Heb. what shall be the manner of the child?]
<04639> [how shall we do unto him. or, what shall he do? Heb. what shall be his work?]
drink <08354> [neither.]
commanded <06680> [all that I.]
awhile <06113> [let us.]
prepare <06213> [until.]
Manoah, not knowing the quality of his guest, wished to do this as act of hospitality.
[for thee. Heb. before thee.]
eat <0398> [I will not.]
As I am a spiritual being, I subsist not by earthly food; and cannot partake of your bounty.
If ........... if <0518> [and if, etc.]
Rather, "but if thou wilt offer," etc.
[unto thee.]
ask <07592> [Why askest.]
cannot comprehend <06383> [secret. or, wonderful.]
It was because his name was secret that Manoah wished to know it. But the angel does not say it was secret, but {hoo pailee,} "it is wonderful;" the very character given to the Messiah: "His name shall be called {pailai,} Wonderful," Isa 9:6.
took <03947> [took.]
did ... amazing <06381 06213> [did wondrously.]
He acted according to His Name: He, being wonderful, performed wonders; probably causing fire to arise out of the rock and consume the sacrifice, and then ascended in the flame.
flame ................ it <03851> [when the flame.]
fell <05307> [fell on.]
realized <03045> [knew.]
We .... die <04191> [We shall.]
seen <07200> [we have.]
wife <0802> [his wife.]
accepted ......... from ... He <03947> [he would not.]
shown <07200> [he have shewed.]
Samson <08123> [A.M. 2849. B.C. 1155. An. Ex. Is. 336. Samson.]
child <05288> [the child.]
spirit <07307> [the Spirit.]
Mahaneh Dan <01835 04264> [the camp of Dan. Heb. Mahaneh-dan, as ch. 18:12. between.]
