And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites,
whose name [was] Manoah; and his wife [was] (a) barren, and bare not.
(a) Signifying that their deliverance came only from God, and not by
man's power.... [ Continue Reading ]
For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come
on his head: for the child shall be a (b) Nazarite unto God from the
womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the
Philistines.
(b) Meaning he should be separate from the world, and dedicated to
God.... [ Continue Reading ]
Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came
unto me, and his countenance [was] like the countenance of an angel of
God, very (c) terrible: but I asked him not whence he [was], neither
told he me his name:
(c) If flesh is not able to endure the sight of an angel, how much
les... [ Continue Reading ]
Then Manoah (d) 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.
(d) He shows himself ready to obey God's will, and therefore desires
to know more.... [ Continue Reading ]
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
(e) [other] day.
(e) It seems that the angel appeared to her twice in one day.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
She may not eat of any [thing] that cometh of the vine, neither let
her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any (g) unclean [thing]: all
that I commanded her let her observe.
(g) Anything forbidden by the Law.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 (h) LORD. For Manoah knew not that he
[was] an angel of the LORD.
(h) Showing that he did not seek his own honour but God's, whose
mes... [ Continue Reading ]
So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered [it] upon a
rock unto the LORD: and [the angel] did (i) wondrously; and Manoah and
his wife looked on.
(i) God sent fire from heaven to consume their sacrifice, to consume
their faith in his promise.... [ Continue Reading ]
But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he
would not have received a (k) burnt offering and a meat offering at
our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these [things], nor
would as at this time have told us [such things] as these.
(k) These graces that we have receive... [ Continue Reading ]