Judges 13:17-25

17 dixitque ad eum quod est tibi nomen ut si sermo tuus fuerit expletus honoremus te

18 cui ille respondit cur quaeris nomen meum quod est mirabile

19 tulit itaque Manue hedum de capris et libamenta et posuit super petram offerens Domino qui facit mirabilia ipse autem et uxor eius intuebantur

20 cumque ascenderet flamma altaris in caelum angelus Domini in flamma pariter ascendit quod cum vidisset Manue et uxor eius proni ceciderunt in terram

21 et ultra non eis apparuit angelus Domini statimque intellexit Manue angelum esse Domini

22 et dixit ad uxorem suam morte moriemur quia vidimus Deum

23 cui respondit mulier si Dominus nos vellet occidere de manibus nostris holocaustum et libamenta non suscepisset nec ostendisset nobis haec omnia neque ea quae sunt ventura dixisset

24 peperit itaque filium et vocavit nomen eius Samson crevitque puer et benedixit ei Dominus

25 coepitque spiritus Domini esse cum eo in castris Dan inter Saraa et Esthaol

Judges 13:17-25 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.