13:21 The Lord’s messenger did not appear again to Manoah and his wife. After all this happened Manoah realized that the visitor had been the Lord’s messenger. 1 13:22 Manoah said to his wife, “We will certainly die, because we have seen a supernatural being!” 2 13:23 But his wife said to him, “If the Lord wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us. 3 He would not have shown us all these things, or have spoken to us like this just now.”
13:24 Manoah’s wife 4 gave birth to a son and named him Samson. 5 The child grew and the Lord empowered 6 him. 13:25 The Lord’s spirit began to control him 7 in Mahaneh Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
1 tn Heb “Then Manoah knew that he was the
2 tn Or “seen God.” Some take the Hebrew term אֱלֹהִים (’elohim) as the divine name (“God”) here, but this seems unlikely since v. 21 informs us that Manoah realized this was the
3 tn Heb “our hand.”
4 tn Heb “the woman.” For clarity this has been specified in the translation as “Manoah’s wife.”
5 tn The name appears to mean “sun-like” or “solar.”
6 tn Traditionally, “blessed.”
7 tn Or “move him to action”; or “stir him.”