Yahweh’s angel said to Manoah, “Though you detain me, I won’t eat your bread. If you will prepare a burnt offering, you must offer it to Yahweh.” For Manoah didn’t know that he was Yahweh’s angel.
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Yahweh’s angel said to Manoah, “Though you detain me, I won’t eat your bread. If you will prepare a burnt offering, you must offer it to Yahweh.” For Manoah didn’t know that he was Yahweh’s angel.
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And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD.
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And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah: 'Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread; and if thou wilt make ready a burnt-offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD.' For Manoah knew not that he was the angel of the LORD.
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Passages linked to Judges 13:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Judges 13:23 But his wife said to him, “If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn’t have received a burnt offering and a meal offering at our hand, and he wouldn’t have shown us all these things, nor would he have told us such things as these at this time.”
- Judges 6:20 The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” He did so.
- Judges 6:26 Then build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in an orderly way, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Showing, that he sought not his own honor but…
Showing, that he sought not his own honor but God’s, whose messenger he was.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jdg 13:16 And the angel of the LORD said…
Jdg 13:16 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he [was] an angel of the LORD.
Ver. 16. I will not eat of thy bread.] I need it not, as you mortal wights do, since Animantis cuiusque vita in fuga est, your life must be upheld by food, but not so mine: I am more than a creature. It is by degrees that Christ revealeth himself.
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And if thou wilt offer a burnt offering.] Thou must be a willing offerer: God straineth upon no man. Virtus nolentium nulla est.
Thou must offer it unto the Lord.] And therefore to me, who am Aυτοθεος, very God.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Bread, i.e. meat, as bread is commonly taken in…
Bread, i.e. meat, as bread is commonly taken in Scripture.
Unto the Lord; not unto a man, as now thou apprehendest me to be; but unto the Lord, as thou wilt by and by perceive me to be.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the angel of the Lord said unto Manoah,....…
And the angel of the Lord said unto Manoah,.... In answer to his request:
though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread; that is, should he be prevailed upon to stay awhile with him, until an entertainment should be got ready, he would not eat of any of his provisions; for "bread" is put for all eatables, or whatsoever he might provide for the entertainment:
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and if, or "but if" (n).
thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the Lord; if he meant to provide not a festival entertainment, but a sacrifice, then he should take care that he did not offer it to strange gods, as was now very much the custom with Israel in this their time of apostasy, Jdg 13:1 but to the true Jehovah, and not to a servant of his, a prophet or an angel, but to himself:
for Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the Lord; he took him to be a man, a prophet sent of God, and not an angel; and much less the uncreated one, to whom as such only the sacrifice could be offered.
(n) "si autem", V. L. "quod si", Tigurine version; "sin autem", Junius & Tremellius; "si vero", Piscator.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Bread - That is, meat, as bread is commonly…
Bread - That is, meat, as bread is commonly taken in scripture. To the Lord - Not unto a man, as thou apprehendest me to be; but unto the Lord, as thou wilt by and by perceive me to be.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 16. I will not eat of thy bread]…
Verse 16. I will not eat of thy bread] As I am a spiritual being, I subsist not by earthly food.
And if thou wilt offer a burnt-offering] Neither shall I receive that homage which belongs to God; thou must therefore offer thy burnt-offering to Jehovah.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Bread is put for all sorts of food. Angels…
Bread is put for all sorts of food. Angels eat none, Tobias xii. 19. (Menochius)
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 16. I will not eat of thy bread —…
16. I will not eat of thy bread — But the same Angel did eat of the food (Gen_18:8) which Abraham prepared; why not do the same with Manoah? Abraham, we may answer, was “heir of the world,” (Rom_4:13,) and a far more important person in the history of the Old Covenant than Manoah, and so with him the Jehovah-Angel might well come into closer fellowship than with other saints.
For Manoah knew not — This statement is given as a reason for the Angel’s suggestion that Manoah might, perhaps, now appropriately offer a burnt offering to Jehovah. He does not tell him that he is the Angel Jehovah, but he powerfully suggests that thought to the mind of Manoah, and thus leads the latter to inquire after his name.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 16. I will not eat of thy bread] in…
16. I will not eat of thy bread] in the general sense of food; cf. Gen_3:19; Gen_47:12, 1Sa_14:24, Psa_136:25. Note the advance in religious ideas: in Gen_18:8 the Angels eat the meal which Abraham provides; in ch. Jdg_6:18 ff. Gideon is allowed to prepare and cook a meal, but it is consumed by fire, not by the Angel; here the very notion of a meal is repelled (cf. Tob_12:19); if anything is to be presented it must be a burnt offering, and offered to Jehovah. The clause For M. knew not etc. would come more suitably at the end of Jdg_13:15.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (16) Thou must offer it unto the Lord.—Rather, a…
(16) Thou must offer it unto the Lord.—Rather, a burnt offering unto the Lord thou mayest offer it. (Comp. Jdg_6:20.) Angels invariably discourage and reprove that “worship of angels” (Col_2:18), which was the tendency of early Gnostic sects (Daniel 10; Rev_19:10; Rev_22:8). The angel might have partaken of earthly food, as we see from Gen_18:8; Gen_19:3. Hence Milton says:—
“Food alike these pure
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Intelligential substances require,
As doth your rational.”—Par. Lost, 5:418.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain I will not eat of thy bread, etc. The…
I will not eat of thy bread, etc. The angel refuses to eat of his meat, but suggests that if he would offer the kid as a burnt offering, he must offer it to the Lord. The angel, perhaps perceiving that Manoah was in doubt as to who he might be, had a holy dread lest he might offer the kid to him, just as the angel whom St. John was about to worship said, "See thou do it not"; (Rev_22:9) and Barnabas and Paul ran in among the people of Lycaonia to restrain them from offering sacrifice to them. (Act_14:14-18) The order of the words, which is rightly given in the A.V, makes it a clear direction to offer the sacrifice to no one but the Lord.
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