to say (used with great latitude) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
angel
מַלְאַ֣ךְmal.'Akh
H4397
a messenger · noun, common masculine singular construct
LORD
יְהוָ֑הYah.weh
H3068
Jehovah · proper noun, a title
detain
נַעְצְרָהna'.tze.rah-
H6113
to inclose · verb, qal infinitive construct, 1st person common plural
ready
וְנַעֲשֶׂ֥הve.na.'a.Seh
H6213
to do or make · conjunction + verb, qal, 1st person common plural
kid
גְּדִ֥יge.Di
H1423
a young goat (from browsing) · noun, common masculine singular construct
for
לְפָנֶ֖יךָle.fa.Nei.kha
H6440
the face (as the part that turns) · preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
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Cross-references
Genesis 18:3-5 And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
Judges 6:18-19 Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until t…
Judges 13:3 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive,…
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Commentary
Matthew Henry on Judges 13:15-23
We have here an account,
I. Of what further passed between Manoah and the angel at this interview. It was in kindness to him that while the angel was with him it was concealed from him that he was an angel; for, had he known it, it would have been such a terror to him that he durst not have conversed with him as he did (Jdg 13:16): He knew not that he was an angel. So Christ was in the world, and the world knew him not. Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself. We could not bear the sight of the divine glory unveiled. God having determined to speak to us by men like ourselves, prophets and ministers, even when he spoke by his angels, or by his Son, they appeared in the likeness of men, and…
MANOAH'S SACRIFICE. (Jdg 13:15-23)
Manoah said unto the angel . . ., I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid--The stranger declined the intended hospitality and intimated that if the meat were to be an offering, it must be presented to the Lord [Jdg 13:6]. Manoah needed this instruction, for his purpose was to offer the prepared viands to him, not as the Lord, but as what he imagined him to be, not even an angel (Jdg 13:16), but a prophet or merely human messenger. It was on this account, and not as rejecting divine honors, that he spoke in this manner to Manoah. The angel's language was exactly similar to that of our Lord (Mat 19:17).
John Gill on Judges 13:15
And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord,.... Being satisfied with what he had said, and perceiving that he chose to say no more, and was about to depart:
I pray thee let me detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee; to eat a meal with them, in token of gratitude for the trouble he had been at in bringing these messages to them, taking him to be a man, a prophet of the Lord, for whom they were wont to make entertainments; and Abarbinel thinks Manoah proposed this, on purpose to detain him, in hope that while they were eating together he would reveal some secrets unto him.
Keil & Delitzsch on Judges 13:15
The Church Fathers
What does Manoe say to his wife: We will die without remedy, because we have seen God (Jc 13,22), after the angel, who spoke with Manoe and his wife, told them who he was? Indeed, according to those words of the law, which says: No one can see the face of God and continue to live (Ex 33,20), they thought, as men, that they had seen God through such a great miracle, because the angel, that little before he had spoken with them, like a man, he stood in the fire of sacrifice. But did they believe that God was in the angel or did they believe that the angel was God? The Scripture says: And Manoah took the kid of the goats and the sacrifice offered him on the stone to the Lord, who does wonderful things. And Manoé and his wife waited. And it came to pass that as the flame of the altar ascended toward heaven, the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame. And Manoé and his wife waited. And they fell face to the ground. And the angel of the Lord did not continue appearing more Manoe and his wife. Then Manoé knew that he was the angel of the Lord, and Manoé said to his wife: "We will die without remedy, because we have seen God" (Jc 13,19-22). As in the previous words Manoé did not say: we will die without remedy because we have seen an angel of the Lord, but because we have seen God, the question arises whether they thought that God was in the angel or called God the angel. The hypothesis that they believed that it was God who was an angel can not be affirmed, since the Scripture says expressly: Then Manoe knew that he was the angel of the Lord. But why were they afraid to die? The Scripture in the Exodus had not said: no one sees the face of an angel and will live, but God had said, speaking himself: my face. Is it perhaps that Manoe, recognizing God in the presence of the angel, was so disturbed that he feared he would die? His wife replied: If the Lord had wanted to kill us, he would not have received the burnt offering and the sacrifice from our hands, nor would he have made us known all these things, nor would he have made us hear all this (Jc 13,23). Did they believe, then, that the angel had received the sacrifice, because they saw him being in the flame that came up from the altar, or did they think that the Lord accepted the sacrifice because the angel did it to show himself as an angel? Whatever the explanation, the angel had already said: But if you…
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Dictionary and topics
Angel — A word signifying, both in the Hebrew and Greek, a “messenger,” and hence employed to denote any agent God sends forth to execute his purposes. It is used of an ordinary messenger (Job 1:14: 1 Sam.…
Cattle — Abounded in the Holy Land. To the rearing and management of them the inhabitants chiefly devoted themselves (Deut. 8:13; 12:21; 1 Sam. 11:5; 12:3; Ps. 144:14; Jer. 3:24). They may be classified as,…
Hospitality — Hospitality was regarded by most nations of the ancient world as one of the chief virtues. The Jewish laws respecting strangers (Leviticus 19:33,34) and the poor, (Leviticus 23:14) seq. Deuteronomy…
Manoah — Rest, a Danite, the father of Samson (Judg. 13:1-22, and 14:2-4).
Philistines — (Gen. 10:14, R.V.; but in A.V., “Philistim”), a tribe allied to the Phoenicians. They were a branch of the primitive race which spread over the whole district of the Lebanon and the valley of the…
Samson — Of the sun, the son of Manoah, born at Zorah. The narrative of his life is given in Judg. 13-16. He was a “Nazarite unto God” from his birth, the first Nazarite mentioned in Scripture (Judg. 13:3-5;…
Manoah · A Danite of Zorah and the father of Sam — A Danite of Zorah and the father of Sam
Titles And Names Of Christ · Angel of the Lord — Angel of the Lord
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
As Manoah had not yet recognised in the man the angel of the Lord, as is observed by way of explanation in Jdg 13:16, he wished, like Gideon (Jdg 6:18), to give a hospitable entertainment to the man who had brought him such joyful tidings, and therefore said to him, "Let us detain thee, and prepare a kid for thee." The construction לפניך נעשׂה is a pregnant one: "prepare and set before thee." On the fact itself, see Jdg 6:19.
