So Manoah took the young goat with the meal offering, and offered it on the rock to Yahweh. Then the angel did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched.
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So Manoah took the young goat with the meal offering, and offered it on the rock to Yahweh. Then the angel did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched.
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So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.
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So Manoah took the kid with the meal-offering, and offered it upon the rock unto the LORD; and the angel did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.
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Passages linked to Judges 13:19 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Judges 6:19-21 Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes of an ephah of meal. He put the meat in a basket and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it. 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. Then Yahweh’s angel stretched out the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up out of the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. Then Yahweh’s angel departed out of his sight.
- 1 Kings 18:30-38 Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me!”; and all the people came near to him. He repaired Yahweh’s altar that had been thrown down. Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom Yahweh’s word came, saying, “Israel shall be your name.” With the stones he built an altar in Yahweh’s name. He made a trench around the altar, large enough to contain two seahs of seed. He put the wood in order, and cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood. He said, “Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the burnt offering, and on the wood.” He said, “Do it a second time;” and they did it the second time. He said, “Do it a third time;” and they did it the third time. The water ran around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water. At the time of the evening offering, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word. Hear me, Yahweh, hear me, that this people may know that you, Yahweh, are God, and that you have turned their heart back again.” Then Yahweh’s fire fell, and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain God sent fire from heaven to consume their sacrifice,…
God sent fire from heaven to consume their sacrifice, to confirm their faith in his promise.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jdg 13:19 So Manoah took a kid with a…
Jdg 13:19 So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered [it] upon a rock unto the LORD: and [the angel] did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.
Ver. 19. So Manoah took a kid, &c.] Both the sacrifiser and the altar were extraordinary; but they had Christ’s warrant for it. {Jdg 19:16}
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And the angel did wondrously.] Probably by bringing fire out of the rock, as before for Gideon, and consuming the sacrifice.
And Manoah and his wife looked on.] For the confirmation of their faith. This was a high favour. All Israel might see Moses go toward the rock of Rephidim. None but the elders might see him strike it: their unbelief made them unworthy of this privilege. It is no small favour of God to make us witnesses of his wondrous works.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Meat-offerings were generally joined with the chief sacrifices.
Meat-offerings were generally joined with the chief sacrifices.
Offered it upon a rock; the angel’s presence and command being a sufficient warrant for the offering of sacrifice by a person who was no priest, and in a place otherwise forbidden.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering,....…
So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering,.... The kid which he proposed to make an entertainment with, for the man of God, he took him to be, he fetched and brought for a burnt offering, at the hint which the angel had given him, and joined to it a meat offering, as was usual whenever burnt offerings were made; see Num 15:3,
and offered it upon a rock unto the Lord; for though Manoah was not a priest, nor was this a proper place for sacrifice; high places were now forbidden, and only at the tabernacle in Shiloh were offerings to be brought; yet all this was dispensed with, and Manoah was justified in what he did by the warrant of the angel, Jdg 13:16. The rock was probably near the place where this meeting of Manoah and his wife with the angel was, and where the discourse between them passed; and which served instead of an altar, and on which Manoah sacrificed, not to idols, but to the true Jehovah, as the angel directed:
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and the angel did wondrously; agreeably to his name, which was "Wonderful", Jdg 13:18 or "he, Jehovah, did wondrously" for this angel was no other than Jehovah the Son. The instance in which he did wondrously was, as Kimchi observes, by bringing fire out of the rock, which consumed the flesh of the kid, and the meat offering; and so Josephus (q) says, that he touched the flesh with a rod he had, and fire sparkled out, and consumed it with the bread, or meat offering; just in the same manner as the angel did with the kid and cakes that Gideon brought, Jdg 6:21.
and Manoah and his wife looked on; to see either fire come down from heaven, or spring up out of the rock, which consumed the sacrifice, and showed the Lord's acceptance of it, and also the angel's ascending in it, as follows.
(q) Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 8. sect. 3.)
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Meal-offering - Which were generally joined with the chief…
Meal-offering - Which were generally joined with the chief sacrifices. A Rock - The angel's presence and command being a sufficient warrant for the offering of sacrifice by a person who was no priest, and in a place otherwise forbidden.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 19. The angel did wondrously] He acted according…
Verse 19. The angel did wondrously] He acted according to his name; he, being wonderful, performed wonderful things; probably causing fire to arise out of the rock and consume the sacrifice, and then ascending in the flame.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Jdg 13:19-20. And offered it upon a rock —…
Jdg 13:19-20. And offered it upon a rock — The presence and command of the angel being a sufficient warrant for the offering of sacrifice by a person who was no priest, and in a place otherwise forbidden. Vitringa, however, supposes that “it was the angel who upon this occasion performed the principal functions of the priest; the most essential of which was to put the fire to the burnt-offering.” Manoah, he observes, “dared not to perform the offices of the priesthood in the presence of a personage whom he took for an extra-ordinary prophet, commissioned from God. All that he did was done by order of the angel, or as his minister; just as the Israelites obeyed Elijah afterward,” 1Ki 18:34. The angel, or rather he, (for there is nothing for angel in the original,) did wondrously — Bringing fire out of the rock, as in the case of Gideon, Jdg 6:21, to consume the burnt-offering, and then ascending in the midst of the flame, hereby manifesting his nature and essence to be spiritual. Off the altar — That is, from that part of the rock which served instead of an altar, upon which the sacrifice was laid. Manoah and his wife fell on their faces — Partly out of reverence for so glorious a person manifested in so wonderful a manner, and partly out of a religious horror and fear of death; for the prevention whereof they fell down in the way of supplication to God.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On. Manue was convinced that the person who had…
On. Manue was convinced that the person who had authorized him to offer sacrifice, had power to dispense with him. (Worthington) --- The angel "did wonderful things," as the Hebrew may be explained, causing a flame to proceed from the rock and to consume the victim, as Josephus assures us, (Calmet) and as the angel who had appeared to Gedeon had done, chap. vi. 21. (Menochius)
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 19. Manoah took a kid — Here notice another…
19. Manoah took a kid — Here notice another instance of a person offering a burnt-offering with his own hands, and far from the tabernacle.
Offered it upon a rock — As Gideon offered his kid and unleavened cakes. Jdg_6:20.
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Did wondrously — His acts accorded with his name. The great miracle was his ascension in the flame of the altar; by which sublime manifestation he overwhelmed Manoah and his wife with a sudden conviction of his divine essence and glory. This conviction only deepened and became more permanent with the lapse of time, and the fact that the Angel no more appeared.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 19. offered it upon the rock] i.e. the rock…
19. offered it upon the rock] i.e. the rock which formed the altar (Jdg_13:20), and lay close at hand. Such an altar, hewn out of the living rock and reached by steps leading to a platform, actually exists near Ṣar‘a (Zorah), and may have been in the writer’s mind; see the illustration in Driver, Schweich Lectures (1909), 66, based on Schick, ZDPV.
10. (1887), 140 f., who first gave details of the discovery. The surface of the altar itself is almost covered with cup-shaped depressions connected in many cases by shallow channels. These hollows look as if they were intended to receive liquid offerings, and certainly there is little room left on the surface for a burnt sacrifice. Hence Kittel, Studien z. Hebr. Archäol. (1908), 97–108, concludes that the altar was primarily a table for a meal offering, and that its use as a hearth for a burnt offering marks the difference between Israelite and pre-Israelite practice. Jehovah would not receive a meal like a Canaanite god; He does not inhabit the sacred stone or tree; His offerings must be consumed by fire which rises to the heaven where He dwells. Kittel works out suggestively the theological significance of Gideon’s and Manoah’s sacrifice; but it must be remembered that his argument turns on the cup-like hollows found on the surface of this and similar altar-rocks1[52]; and the purpose of these is by no means certain at present.
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[52] At Marmita, 2 m. S.E. of Ṣar‘a, at Nebî Samwîl = Mizpah, el-Jib = Gibeon, Petra, all ancient high-places. Rock-surfaces uncovered at Megiddo, at Taanach, at Gezer, exhihit similar cup-marks; see Driver, l.c. 51, 67, 81, and Vincent, Canaan (1907), 95 f.
with the meal offering] See on Jdg_6:18. Some scholars regard the words here and in Jdg_13:23 as a later addition made for the sake of ritual completeness.
and the angel did wondrously] As it stands the text is hardly grammatical; so the angel is inserted in the EV. to make sense. LXX. cod. A and Vulgate read with a slight change ‘unto the Lord who doeth wondrously,’ and many adopt this correction. The clause following is accidentally repeated from Jdg_13:20, where it is in place. Perhaps both clauses (and did wondrously2[53], and … looked on) came in here from Jdg_13:20.
[53] If restored to Jdg_13:20 read w‘hû maflî’ for umaflî’.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (19) Did wonderously.—With a reference to the word pelî…
(19) Did wonderously.—With a reference to the word pelî in the previous verse. (Comp. Jdg_6:20-26.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Offered it, etc. He had the angel"s sanction for…
Offered it, etc. He had the angel"s sanction for doing so in ver. 16. But we must not look for strict compliance with the Levitical law in the lawless days of the Judges, though we find many of its prescribed ordinances in use, as, for instance, the institution of Nazarites, and here the offering of the meat offering with the burnt offering. (Lev_2:1, etc.) And the angel. These words are rightly inserted, to give the sense of the original, as more fully explained in the following verse. Did wonderously literally, was wondrous in his doing. The verb here is the same root as the substantive or adjective wonder, or wonderful, in ver. 18. Compare the similar account in Jud_1:6:21.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 with the grain offering
with the grain offering
This law requires a grain offering to be offered when a burnt offering is made. AT: "with the grain offering required with it" or "with the grain offering to accompany it" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
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on the rock
"on the altar." The altar Manoah sacrificed the offering on was a rock.
He did something
"The angel did something"
the angel of Yahweh went up in the flame of the altar
"the angel of Yahweh went back up into heaven through the flames on the altar"
lay facedown on the ground
"lay with their faces to the ground." This is a sign of respect and honor, but it also shows their fear of Yahweh. (See: Symbolic Action)
translationWords
goat
grain offering
Yahweh
amazed
altar
heaven
angel
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