Richter 13:12

12 Und Manoah sprach: Wenn nun dein Wort eintrifft, was soll die Weise des Knaben sein und sein Tun?

Richter 13:12 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 13:12

And Manoah said, now let thy words come to pass
Which was not only a wish that they might, but a prayer of faith that they would come pass:

how shall we order the child? and how shall we do unto him?
he believed a child would be born, and as he was to be a Nazarite, he knew what were the rules and orders to be observed concerning one in common; but as he was to be an extraordinary one, he was desirous of knowing what particular laws and rules were to be observed with respect to him, or what more was to be done to him than to another: the words may be rendered, as in the margin of our Bibles, "what shall be the judgment of the child, and his work?" and seems to relate not to what should be done to it, but what that should do; for being an extraordinary Nazarite, he supposed that some extraordinary work would be done by him, and he was curious to know it; and so Abarbinel interprets it of his request to know things future and wonderful, that should be done after the child was grown up; but this the angel chose not to inform him of, since it might have been prejudicial to them, should the Philistines get knowledge that this child would be a judge and saviour of Israel, and do such and such things to them as he did, they would have sought to have slain his wife while she bare him, or the child when born; and it may be observed, that though the angel told the woman at first, that he should "begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines", ( Judges 13:5 ) , yet she said nothing of it to her husband, nor did the angel repeat it.

Richter 13:12 In-Context

10 Da eilte das Weib und lief und berichtete es ihrem Manne, und sie sprach zu ihm: Siehe, der Mann ist mir erschienen, der an jenem Tage zu mir gekommen ist.

11 Und Manoah machte sich auf und ging seinem Weibe nach; und er kam zu dem Manne und sprach zu ihm: Bist du der Mann, der zu dem Weibe geredet hat? Und er sprach: Ich bin's.

12 Und Manoah sprach: Wenn nun dein Wort eintrifft, was soll die Weise des Knaben sein und sein Tun?

13 Und der Engel Jehovas sprach zu Manoah: Vor allem, was ich dem Weibe gesagt habe, soll sie sich hüten:

14 Von allem, was vom Weinstock kommt, soll sie nicht essen, und Wein und starkes Getränk soll sie nicht trinken, und soll nichts Unreines essen; alles, was ich ihr geboten habe, soll sie beobachten.