Judges 13:10

10 So the woman ran quickly and told her husband, "The man who came to me the other day has appeared to me."

Judges 13:10 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 13:10

And the woman made haste, and ran
It is not improbable what Josephus says ^F13, that she entreated the angel to stay a little till she fetched her husband, which he assented to, and then made all the haste she could to him, partly through eagerness to acquaint him with it, and partly that she might not make the prophet she took him to be wait too long:

and showed her husband;
that his prayer was heard:

and said unto him, behold, the man hath appeared unto me that came unto
me the [other] day;
or, as the Targum, "this day"; so Kimchi and Ben Melech; for the word "other" is not in the text. It is very probable it was the same day he came again he had appeared to her; perhaps it was in the former part of the day he first came to her, when she went home to her husband, and acquainted him with it, who prayed to the Lord that he might be sent again; and then she returned to her place in the field, and in the latter part of the day the angel appeared again.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 Antiqu. l. 5. c. 8. sect. 3.

Judges 13:10 In-Context

8 Then Manoah entreated the Lord, and said, "O Lord, I pray, let the man of God whom you sent come to us again and teach us what we are to do concerning the boy who will be born."

9 God listened to Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field; but her husband Manoah was not with her.

10 So the woman ran quickly and told her husband, "The man who came to me the other day has appeared to me."

11 Manoah got up and followed his wife, and came to the man and said to him, "Are you the man who spoke to this woman?" And he said, "I am."

12 Then Manoah said, "Now when your words come true, what is to be the boy's rule of life; what is he to do?"