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Judges 13:11

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So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he asked, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?” “I am,” he said.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am.

KJV

And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am.

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This verse in Judges 13

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

"Oh," says she, overjoyed, "my dear love, thy prayers are answered--yonder is the man of God, come to make us another visit--he that came the other day," or, as some read it, this day, for other is not in the original, and it is probable enough that both these visits were on the same day, and at the same place, and that the second time she sat expecting him.

This site's exposition

And Manoah arose, and went

on Judges 13:11-14

Manoah's question at verse 12 asks two things, how the child is to be ordered and what is to be done to him, and the angel answers by pointing him back to his wife. Everything said to Manoah repeats what was said to her, and the charge stays on her, let her beware, all that I commanded her let her observe. Any thing that cometh of the vine is the wording of Numbers 6:4, which reaches to kernels and husk as well as to wine. Nothing further is laid on the boy beyond the razor of verse 5, so the discipline this chapter describes is the mother's to keep.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And Manoah arose and went after his wife,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

It was a vulgar opinion generally received among the ancient Jews that it was present death to see God or an angel; and this notion quite overcome his faith for the present, as it did Gideon's, ch. vi. In his wife's reflection upon it there is great faith,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

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.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

What regulations must we follow with the boy? How shall we treat him? What should appropriately be done with the boy, what must we do with him? 3 Targum Yonasan. The question was not what must the boy do, but what must we do with him.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Judges 13:12:1, via Sefaria, The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 7 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיָּ֛קָםand he arose

    vaiyakomH6965 →628 times

  • וַיֵּ֥לֶךְand he went

    vaiyelekhH1980 →1546 times

  • מָנ֖וֹחַManoah

    manoachH4495 →18 times

  • אַחֲרֵ֣יafter

    ʾachareiH310 →715 times

  • אִשְׁתּ֑וֹwife his

    ʾishtoH802 →781 times

  • וַיָּבֹא֙and he came

    vaiyavo'H935 →2568 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הָאִ֔ישׁthe man

    haishH376 →1663 times

  • וַיֹּ֣אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • ל֗וֹto <the> him

    lo

  • הַאַתָּ֥ה¿ [are] you

    haatahH859 →1094 times

  • הָאִ֛ישׁthe man

    haishH376 →1663 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־who

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • דִּבַּ֥רְתָּyou spoke

    dibartaH1696 →1141 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הָאִשָּׁ֖הthe woman

    haishahH802 →781 times

  • וַיֹּ֥אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH559 →5305 times

  • אָֽנִי׃I

    ʾaniH589 →874 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

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Where this verse is studied

About Judges

The Death of Samson, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Death of Samson, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Judges: the study guide →Read Judges 13 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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