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Geneva Study Bible - Judges 13:11

13:11 And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the {f} man, and said unto him, [Art] thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I [am].(f) He calls him man, because he so seemed, but he was Christ the eternal word, which at his appointed time became man. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Judges 13:1-25

SAMSON THE NAZARITE The close of chapter 12 furnishes the history of three other civil judges, and then we reach that of another warrior as picturesque as Gideon or Jephthah. Sampson’s life is so full of inconsistencies and mysteries from the divine standpoint, that again we can only await the explanations until we shall know as we are known. THE PROMISED SON (Judges 13:0 ) Here is another theophany, for “the angel of the Lord” is none other than Jehovah Jesus. The beginning of this... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Judges 13:1-25

Judges 13:0 (Annotated) Judges 13:0 1. And the children of Israel did evil again [see chap. Judges 3:7 , Judges 4:1 , Judges 6:1-11 , Jdg 10:6 ] in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines [who from this point to the reign of David play a most important part. By Philistines we are not to understand Canaanites, but foreign conquerors; the name means camps ] forty years [terminating with the battle of Ebenezer, 1Sa 7:13 ]. 2. And there was a certain... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Judges 13:12

"Handfuls of Purpose" For All Gleaners "How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?" Judges 13:12 . The supreme question which parents should ask. A question which God permits to be pat to himself. God alone can know the true way of training a human life. It is in vain to ask God's guidance after the foundations of the life have been laid and its policy has been determined upon. The child is to be trained up from its earliest moment. There is a sense in which there is no time... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Judges 13:1

CONTENTS This chapter commenceth with another sad account of Israel's transgression, and the consequent punishment from the Lord. We have in it also, the relation of the birth of Samson, and the message of an angel concerning him. The conference between the angel and the mother of Samson in the first interview, and the renewed conversation at a second, when her husband was present. Both are circumstantially related in this chapter. Judges 13:1 And the children of Israel did evil again in the... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Judges 13:2

Dan was one of the tribes of Israel. And this tribe lay near the Philistines' country. Jacob prophesied concerning this tribe, that Dan should judge his people. Perhaps this prophecy had its fulfillment in the person of Samson. Genesis 49:16 . read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Judges 13:3

If the Reader will connect what is here said of this angel, with what is said of him in Judges 13:18 , where the angel declares his name to be Secret, or as it might have been translated Wonderful: and then will call to mind what the Holy Ghost hath said of the Lord Jesus, by his servant the prophet Isaiah, that his name should be called Wonderful; such views will leave the Reader but little room to doubt who the angel was. See Isaiah 9:6 . And if the Reader will go further, and read Judges... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Judges 13:4-5

There is somewhat peculiarly interesting in the law of the Nazarites. The separation, or the being sanctified, and set apart to the Lord, carried with it a matter of great moment. And hence Moses appropriates a whole chapter to this one subject. And it is worthy of remark, that at the close of that chapter the blessing of Israel is subjoined, which certainly is expressive of the united blessing of Jehovah in his threefold character of persons. See Numbers 6:0 throughout. See the Commentary also... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Judges 13:6-7

An interesting information to her husband. No doubt from the nature of the prohibition, both Manoah and his wife conceived somewhat wonderful of this child; and cheerfully wished that a child, concerning whose birth so much attention was to be shown, might be dedicated as a Nazarite to the Lord from the womb. Nothing can be more interesting, nor more devoutly to be prayed for by true believers in Jesus, than that their offspring should be early followers of the Lord as dear children. If my... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Judges 13:8

There is somewhat very striking in the prayer of Manoah. No doubt from the woman's account in the joy she had experienced from the interview with the angel, the husband desired to be made a partaker in the same felicity. Reader! how dead and insipid would be all earthly conversation, if we were conversant with the heavenly inhabitants. Dearest Jesus! grant us the sweet visits of thy grace, and let our conversation be more in heaven; then shall we be looking for, and longing for the day of thy... read more

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