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And he said, I <i>am</i>.</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/judges/13.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/judges/13.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/judges/13.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/judges/13.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/judges/13.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/judges/13.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/judges/13.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/judges/13.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/judges/13.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gaebelein/judges/13.htm" title="Gaebelein's Annotated Bible">Gaebelein</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gsb/judges/13.htm" title="Geneva Study Bible">GSB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gill/judges/13.htm" title="Gill's Bible Exposition">Gill</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gray/judges/13.htm" title="Gray's Concise">Gray</a> • <a href="/commentaries/guzik/judges/13.htm" title="Guzik Bible Commentary">Guzik</a> • <a href="/commentaries/haydock/judges/13.htm" title="Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary">Haydock</a> • <a href="/commentaries/hastings/judges/5-23.htm" title="Hastings Great Texts">Hastings</a> • <a href="/commentaries/homiletics/judges/13.htm" title="Pulpit Homiletics">Homiletics</a> • <a href="/commentaries/jfb/judges/13.htm" title="Jamieson-Fausset-Brown">JFB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kad/judges/13.htm" title="Keil and Delitzsch OT">KD</a> • <a href="/commentaries/king-en/judges/13.htm" title="Kingcomments Bible Studies">King</a> • <a href="/commentaries/lange/judges/13.htm" title="Lange Commentary">Lange</a> • <a href="/commentaries/maclaren/judges/13.htm" title="MacLaren Expositions">MacLaren</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhc/judges/13.htm" title="Matthew Henry Concise">MHC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhcw/judges/13.htm" title="Matthew Henry Full">MHCW</a> • <a href="/commentaries/parker/judges/13.htm" title="The People's Bible by Joseph Parker">Parker</a> • <a href="/commentaries/poole/judges/13.htm" title="Matthew Poole">Poole</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pulpit/judges/13.htm" title="Pulpit Commentary">Pulpit</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sermon/judges/13.htm" title="Sermon Bible">Sermon</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sco/judges/13.htm" title="Scofield Reference Notes">SCO</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ttb/judges/13.htm" title="Through The Bible">TTB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/wes/judges/13.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/judges/13.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>13:8-14 Blessed are those who have not seen, and yet, as Manoah, have believed. Good men are more careful and desirous to know the duty to be done by them, than to know the events concerning them: duty is ours, events are God's. God will guide those by his counsel, who desire to know their duty, and apply to him to teach them. Pious parents, especially, will beg Divine assistance. The angel repeats the directions he had before given. There is need of much care for the right ordering both of ourselves and our children, that we may be duly separate from the world, and living sacrifices to the Lord.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/judges/13.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>A man of God - The designation of a prophet, of frequent use in the books of Samuel and Kings <a href="/1_samuel/2-27.htm">1 Samuel 2:27</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/1_samuel/9-6.htm">1 Samuel 9:6-8</a>, <a href="/1_samuel/9-10.htm">1 Samuel 9:10</a>; <a href="/1_kings/12-22.htm">1 Kings 12:22</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-1.htm">1 Kings 13:1</a>, <a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-5.htm">1 Kings 13:5-6</a>, <a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/13-11.htm">1 Kings 13:11</a>, and applied to Timothy by Paul in the New Testament <a href="/1_timothy/6-11.htm">1 Timothy 6:11</a>; <a href="/2_timothy/3-17.htm">2 Timothy 3:17</a>.<p>His countenance - Rather, "his appearance," as the word is rendered in <a href="/daniel/10-18.htm">Daniel 10:18</a>. <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/judges/13.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>Jud 13:11-14. The Angel Appears to Manoah.<p>11. Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman?—Manoah's intense desire for the repetition of the angel's visit was prompted not by doubts or anxieties of any kind, but was the fruit of lively faith, and of his great anxiety to follow out the instructions given. Blessed was he who had not seen, yet had believed.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/judges/13.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/judges/13.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>And Manoah arose and went after his wife,.... As soon as she had delivered the above, she made all the haste she could to the man again, lest he should think her too long, and depart; and it was proper enough she should go first, to direct her husband where the man was; Jarchi interprets it, after her counsel and advice: <p>and came to the man, and said unto him, art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? meaning his wife then present: <p>and he said, I am; the very same person; for though he was not a man, yet appearing in an human form was taken for one; and therefore makes answer according to the supposition of him, and was the selfsame person, and in the same form he had appeared before. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/judges/13.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the <span class="cverse3">{f}</span> man, and said unto him, <i>Art</i> thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I <i>am</i>.</span><p>(f) He calls him man, because he so seemed, but he was Christ the eternal word, which at his appointed time became man.</div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div>Judges 13:11<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/judges/13.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>Then she hastened to fetch her husband, who first of all inquired of the person who had appeared, "Art thou the man who said to the woman" (sc., what has been related in <a href="http://biblehub.com/judges/13-3.htm">Judges 13:3-5</a>)? And when this was answered in the affirmative, he said still further (<a href="/judges/13-12.htm">Judges 13:12</a>), "Should thy word then come to pass, what will be the manner of the boy, and his doing?" The plural דּבריך is construed ad sensum with the singular verb, because the words form one promise, so that the expression is not to be taken distributively, as Rosenmller supposes. 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