Jueces 13:19

19 Y Manoa tomó un cabrito de las cabras y un presente, y lo sacrificó sobre una peña al SEÑOR; y el ángel hizo maravillas a vista de Manoa y de su mujer

Jueces 13:19 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 13:19

So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering
The kid which he proposed to make an entertainment with, for the man of God, he took him to be, he fetched and brought for a burnt offering, at the hint which the angel had given him, and joined to it a meat offering, as was usual whenever burnt offerings were made; see ( Numbers 15:3 Numbers 15:4 ) ,

and offered it upon a rock unto the Lord;
for though Manoah was not a priest, nor was this a proper place for sacrifice; high places were now forbidden, and only at the tabernacle in Shiloh were offerings to be brought; yet all this was dispensed with, and Manoah was justified in what he did by the warrant of the angel, ( Judges 13:16 ) . The rock was probably near the place where this meeting of Manoah and his wife with the angel was, and where the discourse between them passed; and which served instead of an altar, and on which Manoah sacrificed, not to idols, but to the true Jehovah, as the angel directed:

and the angel did wondrously;
agreeably to his name, which was "Wonderful", ( Judges 13:18 ) or "he, Jehovah, did wondrously" for this angel was no other than Jehovah the Son. The instance in which he did wondrously was, as Kimchi observes, by bringing fire out of the rock, which consumed the flesh of the kid, and the meat offering; and so Josephus ^F17 says, that he touched the flesh with a rod he had, and fire sparkled out, and consumed it with the bread, or meat offering; just in the same manner as the angel did with the kid and cakes that Gideon brought, ( Judges 6:21 )

and Manoah and his wife looked on;
to see either fire come down from heaven, or spring up out of the rock, which consumed the sacrifice, and showed the Lord's acceptance of it, and also the angel's ascending in it, as follows.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 8. sect. 3.)

Jueces 13:19 In-Context

17 Entonces dijo Manoa al ángel del SEÑOR: ¿Cómo es tu nombre, para que cuando se cumpliere tu palabra te honremos

18 Y el ángel del SEÑOR respondió: ¿Por qué preguntas por mi nombre? Es maravilloso

19 Y Manoa tomó un cabrito de las cabras y un presente, y lo sacrificó sobre una peña al SEÑOR; y el ángel hizo maravillas a vista de Manoa y de su mujer

20 Porque aconteció que cuando la llama subía del altar hacia el cielo, el ángel del SEÑOR subió en la llama del altar a vista de Manoa y de su mujer, los cuales se postraron en tierra sobre sus rostros

21 Y el ángel del SEÑOR no volvió a aparecer a Manoa ni a su mujer. Entonces conoció Manoa que era el ángel del SEÑOR