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Israel Serves the Philistines Forty Years.<p>1. the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years—The Israelites were represented (Jud 10:6, 7) as having fallen universally into a state of gross and confirmed idolatry, and in chastisement of this great apostasy, the Lord raised up enemies that harassed them in various quarters, especially the Ammonites and Philistines. The invasions and defeat of the former were narrated in the two chapters immediately preceding this; and now the sacred historian proceeds to describe the inroads of the latter people. The period of Philistine ascendency comprised forty years, reckoning from the time of Elon till the death of Samson.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/judges/13-2.htm">Judges 13:2</a></div><div class="verse">And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name <i>was</i> Manoah; and his wife <i>was</i> barren, and bare not.</div><div class="comm">Jud 13:2-10. An Angel Appears to Manoah's Wife.<p>2. Zorah—a Danite town (Jos 15:33) lying on the common boundary of Judah and Dan, so that it was near the Philistine border.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/judges/13-3.htm">Judges 13:3</a></div><div class="verse">And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou <i>art</i> barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.</div><div class="comm">3. the angel of the Lord—The messenger of the covenant, the divine personage who made so many remarkable appearances of a similar kind already described.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/judges/13-4.htm">Judges 13:4</a></div><div class="verse">Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean <i>thing</i>:</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/judges/13-5.htm">Judges 13:5</a></div><div class="verse">For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no rasor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.</div><div class="comm">5. thou shalt conceive, and bear a son—This predicted child was to be a Nazarite. The mother was, therefore, for the sake of her promised offspring, required to practice the rigid abstinence of the Nazarite law (see on [223]Nu 6:2).<p>he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines—a prophecy encouraging to a patriotic man; the terms of it, however, indicated that the period of deliverance was still to be distant.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/judges/13-6.htm">Judges 13:6</a></div><div class="verse">Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance <i>was</i> like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he <i>was</i>, neither told he me his name:</div><div class="comm">6-8. then Manoah entreated the Lord—On being informed by his wife of the welcome intimation, the husband made it the subject of earnest prayer to God. This is a remarkable instance, indicative of the connection which God has established between prayer and the fulfilment of His promises.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/judges/13-7.htm">Judges 13:7</a></div><div class="verse">But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean <i>thing</i>: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/judges/13-8.htm">Judges 13:8</a></div><div class="verse">Then Manoah intreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/judges/13-9.htm">Judges 13:9</a></div><div class="verse">And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband <i>was</i> not with her.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/judges/13-10.htm">Judges 13:10</a></div><div class="verse">And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the <i>other</i> day.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/judges/13-11.htm">Judges 13:11</a></div><div class="verse">And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, <i>Art</i> thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I <i>am</i>.</div><div class="comm">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> <div class="versenum"><a href="/judges/13-12.htm">Judges 13:12</a></div><div class="verse">And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and <i>how</i> shall we do unto him?</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/judges/13-13.htm">Judges 13:13</a></div><div class="verse">And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/judges/13-14.htm">Judges 13:14</a></div><div class="verse">She may not eat of any <i>thing</i> that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean <i>thing</i>: all that I commanded her let her observe.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/judges/13-15.htm">Judges 13:15</a></div><div class="verse">And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.</div><div class="comm">Jud 13:15-23. Manoah's Sacrifice.<p>15. Manoah said unto the angel …, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid—The stranger declined the intended hospitality and intimated that if the meat were to be an offering, it must be presented to the Lord [Jud 13:6]. Manoah needed this instruction, for his purpose was to offer the prepared viands to him, not as the Lord, but as what he imagined him to be, not even an angel (Jud 13:16), but a prophet or merely human messenger. It was on this account, and not as rejecting divine honors, that he spoke in this manner to Manoah. The angel's language was exactly similar to that of our Lord (Mt 19:17).</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/judges/13-16.htm">Judges 13:16</a></div><div class="verse">And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he <i>was</i> an angel of the LORD.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/judges/13-17.htm">Judges 13:17</a></div><div class="verse">And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What <i>is</i> thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?</div><div class="comm">17-20. Manoah said unto the angel …, What is thy name?—Manoah's request elicited the most unequivocal proofs of the divinity of his supernatural visitor—in his name "secret" (in the Margin, "wonderful"), and in the miraculous flame that betokened the acceptance of the sacrifice.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/judges/13-18.htm">Judges 13:18</a></div><div class="verse">And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it <i>is</i> secret?</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/judges/13-19.htm">Judges 13:19</a></div><div class="verse">So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered <i>it</i> upon a rock unto the LORD: and <i>the angel</i> did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/judges/13-20.htm">Judges 13:20</a></div><div class="verse">For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on <i>it</i>, and fell on their faces to the ground.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/judges/13-21.htm">Judges 13:21</a></div><div class="verse">But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he <i>was</i> an angel of the LORD.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/judges/13-22.htm">Judges 13:22</a></div><div class="verse">And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/judges/13-23.htm">Judges 13:23</a></div><div class="verse">But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these <i>things</i>, nor would as at this time have told us <i>such things</i> as these.</div><div class="comm"></div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/judges/13-24.htm">Judges 13:24</a></div><div class="verse">And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.</div><div class="comm">Jud 13:24, 25. Samson Born.<p>24. the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson—The birth of this child of promise, and the report of the important national services he was to render, must, from the first, have made him an object of peculiar interest and careful instruction.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/judges/13-25.htm">Judges 13:25</a></div><div class="verse">And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.</div><div class="comm">25. the Spirit of the Lord began to move him at times—not, probably, as it moved the prophets, who were charged with an inspired message, but kindling in his youthful bosom a spirit of high and devoted patriotism.<p>Eshtaol—the free city. It, as well as Zorah, stood on the border between Judah and Dan. </div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments by Robert Jamieson, A. R. 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