Judges 13:15
in Judges 13“Please stay here,” Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “and we will prepare a young goat for you.”
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And Manoah said unto the angel of Jehovah, I pray thee, let us detain thee, that we may make ready a kid for thee.
KJV
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.
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This verse in Judges 13
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
The language of Manoah, like that of Gideon Jdg 6:18, seems to indicate some suspicion that his visitor was more than human. The word rendered “made ready,” is also the proper word for “offering a sacrifice,” and is so used by the Angel in the next verse. By which it appears that the Angel understood Manoah to speak of offering a kid as a burnt-offering. Hence, his caution, “thou must offer it unto the Lord.” (Compare Rev 19:10; Rev 22:8; Act 10:25-26.)
This site's exposition
let us detain thee, until
on Judges 13:15-16
Manoah offers to prepare a kid, which is what Gideon did at 6:19 under the oak at Ophrah, and both meals end as burnt offerings laid on a rock. The refusal is exact, no bread eaten and the offering redirected, thou must offer it unto the Lord. Revelation 19:10 and 22:8-9 have an angel refuse worship in the same terms, and readers divide over the figure standing here. Adam Clarke and Matthew Henry take the appearance as the Son before his incarnation, while Jamieson, Fausset and Brown read the words as a correction of what Manoah supposed rather than a refusal of divine honour, since verse 16 says Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the Lord.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord,....
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
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.
Until we shall have made ready a kid - Not knowing his quality, Manoah wished to do this as an act of hospitality.
The words behind it
12 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיֹּ֥אמֶר | vaiyomer | and he said | H559 → | 5305 times |
| מָנ֖וֹחַ | manoach | Manoah | H4495 → | 18 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| מַלְאַ֣ךְ | malakh | [the] angel of | H4397 → | 213 times |
| יְהוָ֑ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| נַעְצְרָה־ | na'tzerah- | let us detain | H6113 → | |
| נָּ֣א | na' | please | H4994 → | 404 times |
| אוֹתָ֔ךְ | ʾotakh | <obj.> you | H853 → | 10935 times |
| וְנַעֲשֶׂ֥ה | venaaseh | so we may prepare | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| לְפָנֶ֖יךָ | lefaneikha | <to> before you | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| גְּדִ֥י | gedi | a kid of | H1423 → | 16 times |
| עִזִּֽים׃ | ʾizim | goats | H5795 → | 74 times |
וַיֹּ֥אמֶרand he said
vaiyomerH559 →5305 times
מָנ֖וֹחַManoah
manoachH4495 →18 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
מַלְאַ֣ךְ[the] angel of
malakhH4397 →213 times
יְהוָ֑הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
נַעְצְרָה־let us detain
na'tzerah-H6113 →
נָּ֣אplease
na'H4994 →404 times
אוֹתָ֔ךְ<obj.> you
ʾotakhH853 →10935 times
וְנַעֲשֶׂ֥הso we may prepare
venaasehH6213 →2628 times
לְפָנֶ֖יךָ<to> before you
lefaneikhaH6440 →2123 times
גְּדִ֥יa kid of
gediH1423 →16 times
עִזִּֽים׃goats
ʾizimH5795 →74 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Judges 13:3The angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “It is true that you are barren and have no children; but you will conceive and give birth to a son.
it leads to
- Luke 1:13
But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the name John.
- Genesis 18:10
Then the LORD said, “I will surely return to you at this time next year, and your wife Sarah will have a son!” Now Sarah was behind him, listening at the entrance to the…
- Luke 1:11
Just then an angel of the Lord appeared to Zechariah, standing at the right side of the altar of incense.
- Judges 6:11–12
Then the angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it…
- Judges 13:8
Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, “Please, O Lord, let the man of God You sent us come to us again to teach us how to raise the boy who is to be born.”
- Luke 1:13
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About Judges
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).