Judges 13:18-22

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Judges 13:15-23

We have here an account, I. Of what further passed between Manoah and the angel at this interview. It was in kindness to him that while the angel was with him it was concealed from him that he was an angel; for, had he known it, it would have been such a terror to him that he durst not have conversed with him as he did (Jdg. 13:16): He knew not that he was an angel. So Christ was in the world, and the world knew him not. Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself. We could not bear the sight of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 13:18

And the angel of the Lord said unto him ,.... Being so importunate, and pressing upon him: why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret ? and not to be known; as his nature and essence as a divine Person, which may be meant by his name, is what passes knowledge, is infinite and incomprehensible; see Proverbs 30:4 or "wonderful" F16 פלאי θαυμαστον , Sept. "mirabile", V. L. Montanus; "mirificus", Junius & Tremellius. ; which is one of the names of Christ, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 13:19

So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering ,.... The kid which he proposed to make an entertainment with, for the man of God, he took him to be, he fetched and brought for a burnt offering, at the hint which the angel had given him, and joined to it a meat offering, as was usual whenever burnt offerings were made; see Numbers 15:3 , and offered it upon a rock unto the Lord ; for though Manoah was not a priest, nor was this a proper place for sacrifice; high places were now forbidden,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 13:20

For it came to pass, when the flame went up towards heaven from off the altar ,.... That is, from the rock, which served instead of an altar, and from whence perhaps the fire sprung which consumed both the burnt offering and the meat offering, the flame of which went up to heaven; this rock or altar having no covering, but was "sub dio", open to the heavens: that the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar ; making use of the smoke, as Josephus F18 Ibid. (Antiqu. l. 5.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 13:21

But the angel of the Lord did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife ,.... As the flame and smoke ascended, he disappeared therewith, and was seen no more: then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the Lord ; by the wondrous things he did, causing fire to come down from heaven, or out of the rock, ascending in the midst of the flame, without being hurt by it, and going up to heaven in it. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 13:22

And Manoah said unto his wife ,.... Being risen from the ground, where they fell on their faces: we shall surely die, because we have seen God ; by which it appears that he not only believed him to be an angel, and not a man, but a divine Person; for though angels are sometimes called "Elohim", the word here used, yet good men were not wont to fear death, or conclude they should die on sight of an angel; but their notion was, that an appearance of God to them was death, and were... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 13:18

Seeing it is secret ? - It was because it was secret that they wished to know it. The angel does not say that it was secret, but פלאי הוא hu peli it is Wonderful; the very character that is given to Jesus Christ, Isaiah 9:6 ; : His name shall be called, פלא Wonderful; and it is supposed by some that the angel gives this as his name, and consequently that he was our blessed Lord. read more

Adam Clarke

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Judges 13:15-23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 13:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 13:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 13:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 13:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Judges 13:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 13:18

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 13:19

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 13:22

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Judges 13:18

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