Judges 13:20-25

20 A flame blazed up from the altar toward heaven. The angel of the LORD rose up in the flame. When Manoah and his wife saw it, they fell with their faces to the ground.

21 The angel of the LORD didn't show himself again to Manoah and his wife. Then Manoah realized it was the angel of the Lord.

22 "We're going to die!" he said to his wife. "We've seen God!"

23 But his wife answered, "The LORD doesn't want to kill us. If he did, he wouldn't have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from us. He wouldn't have shown us all of those things. He wouldn't have told us we're going to have a son."

24 Later, the woman had a baby boy. She named him Samson. As he grew up, the LORD blessed him.

25 The Spirit of the LORD began to work in his life. It happened while he was in Mahaneh Dan. It's between Zorah and Eshtaol.

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Judges 13:20-25 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JUDGES 13

This chapter relates the birth of Samson, another of the judges of Israel, which was foretold by an angel to his mother, who told her husband of it, Jud 13:1-7 upon whose entreaty the angel appeared again, and related the same to them both, Jud 13:8-14 and who was very, respectfully treated by the man, and by the wonderful things he did was known by him to be an angel of the Lord, which greatly surprised him, Jud 13:15-23 and the chapter is closed with an account of the birth of Samson, and of his being early endowed with the Spirit of God, Jud 13:24,25.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Judges 13:20-25

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Judges 13:20-25 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JUDGES 13