Judges 13:19
in Judges 13Then Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the LORD. And as Manoah and his wife looked on, the LORD did a marvelous thing.
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ASV
So Manoah took the kid with the meal-offering, and offered it upon the rock unto Jehovah: and the angel did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.
KJV
So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the Lord: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.
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This verse in Judges 13
Commentary
9 notes on this verseThe angel did wondrously - He acted according to his name; he, being wonderful, performed wonderful things; probably causing fire to arise out of the rock and consume the sacrifice, and then ascending in the flame.
This site's exposition
Then Manoah took a young goat
on Judges 13:19-21
The offering goes up on a rock, and verse 20 calls that rock “the altar”, as Gideon's rock became at 6:20-21. There the fire rose out of the rock and the angel vanished, and here “the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame”. Verse 21 puts the knowledge last, since the visits stop and only then “Manoah realized that it had been the angel of the LORD”.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening5 voices
Meal-offering - Which were generally joined with the chief sacrifices. A Rock - The angel's presence and command being a sufficient warrant for the offering of sacrifice by a person who was no priest, and in a place otherwise forbidden.
The great Redeemer did in a particular manner concern himself about this typical redeemer. Beware - Because the child was to be a Nazarite from the womb, ver. 5, and from the conception; and because the mother's pollution extends to the child, she is enjoined from this time to observe the following rules belonging to the Nazarites.
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), that is, he brought and laid it to be offered. "Lord, here it is, do what thou pleasest with it." Thus we must bring our hearts to God as living sacrifices, and submit them to the operation of his Spirit. All things being now ready, (1.) The angel did wondrously, for his name was Wonderful.
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So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering,....
The angel did all that was done in the sacrifice; they did but look on; yet doubtless, when the angel ascended towards heaven, their hearts ascended with him in thanksgiving for the promise which came thence and in expectation of the performance to come thence too.
2 more voices on this verse
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
It was not so much for the sake of Manoah and his wife, obscure Danites, that this extraordinary message was sent, but for Israel's sake, whose deliverer he was to be, and not only so (his services to Israel not seeming to answer to the grandeur of his entry) but for the Messiah's sake, whose type he was to be, and whose birth must be foretold by an angel, as his was.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
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.
The words behind it
16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיִּקַּ֨ח | vaiyikach | and he took | H3947 → | 966 times |
| מָנ֜וֹחַ | manoach | Manoah | H4495 → | 18 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| גְּדִ֤י | gedi | [the] kid of | H1423 → | 16 times |
| הָעִזִּים֙ | haizim | the goats | H5795 → | 74 times |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַמִּנְחָ֔ה | haminchah | the grain offering | H4503 → | 211 times |
| וַיַּ֥עַל | vaiyaal | and he offered [it] up | H5927 → | 890 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| הַצּ֖וּר | hatzur | the rock | H6697 → | 78 times |
| לַֽיהוָ֑ה | layahweh | to Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| וּמַפְלִ֣א | umafli' | and an extraordinary thing | H6381 → | |
| לַעֲשׂ֔וֹת | laasot | to do | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| וּמָנ֥וֹחַ | umanoach | and Manoah | H4495 → | 18 times |
| וְאִשְׁתּ֖וֹ | veishto | and wife his | H802 → | 781 times |
| רֹאִֽים׃ | roim | [were] looking | H7200 → | 1300 times |
וַיִּקַּ֨חand he took
vaiyikachH3947 →966 times
מָנ֜וֹחַManoah
manoachH4495 →18 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
גְּדִ֤י[the] kid of
gediH1423 →16 times
הָעִזִּים֙the goats
haizimH5795 →74 times
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
הַמִּנְחָ֔הthe grain offering
haminchahH4503 →211 times
וַיַּ֥עַלand he offered [it] up
vaiyaalH5927 →890 times
עַל־on
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
הַצּ֖וּרthe rock
hatzurH6697 →78 times
לַֽיהוָ֑הto Yahweh
layahwehH3068 →6520 times
וּמַפְלִ֣אand an extraordinary thing
umafli'H6381 →
לַעֲשׂ֔וֹתto do
laasotH6213 →2628 times
וּמָנ֥וֹחַand Manoah
umanoachH4495 →18 times
וְאִשְׁתּ֖וֹand wife his
veishtoH802 →781 times
רֹאִֽים׃[were] looking
roimH7200 →1300 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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About Judges
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.