Judges 13:17

THE MESSAGE

Then Manoah asked the angel of God, "What's your name? When your words come true, we'd like to honor you."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Manoah said to him, “What is your name, so that we may honor you when your words come true?”

Hebrew Names Version
Manoach said to the angel of the LORD, What is your name, that when your words happen, we may honor you?

King James Version
And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord , What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?

Lexham English Bible
And Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, "What is your name so that when your words come true we may honor you?"

English Standard Version
And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord , "What is your name, so that, when your words come true, we may honor you?"

New Century Version
Then Manoah asked the angel of the Lord , "What is your name? Then we will honor you when what you have said really happens."

New English Translation
Manoah said to the Lord 's messenger, "Tell us your name, so we can honor you when your announcement comes true."

Amplified Bible
Manoah said to the Angel of the LORD, "What is your name, so that when your words come true, we may honor you?"

New American Standard Bible
And Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, "What is your name, so that when your words are fulfilled, we may honor you?"

Geneva Bible (1587)
Againe Manoah said vnto the Angell of the Lorde, What is thy name, that when thy saying is come to passe, we may honour thee?

Legacy Standard Bible
But you, beloved, must remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Contemporary English Version
Manoah said, "Tell us your name, so we can honor you after our son is born."

Complete Jewish Bible
Manoach said to the angel of Adonai , "Tell us your name, so that when your words come true we can honor you."

Darby Translation
And Manoah said to the Angel of Jehovah, What is thy name, that when thy word cometh to pass we may do thee honour?

Easy-to-Read Version
Then Manoah asked the angel of the Lord , "What is your name? We want to know so that we can honor you when what you have said really happens."

George Lamsa Translation
And Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, What is your name, that when your sayings come to pass we may invoke your name?

Good News Translation
Manoah replied, "Tell us your name, so that we can honor you when your words come true."

Literal Translation
And Manoah said to the Angel of Jehovah, What is Your name? When Your words come about, then we shall honor You.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Manoah sayde vnto the angell of the LORDE: What is thy name, that we maye prayse ye, whan it commeth now to passe, that thou hast sayde?

American Standard Version
And Manoah said unto the angel of Jehovah, What is thy name, that, when thy words come to pass, we may do thee honor?

Bible in Basic English
Then Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, What is your name, so that when your words come true we may give you honour?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Manoah sayde agayne vnto the angell of the Lord: What is thy name, that when thy saying is come to passe, we may do thee worshippe?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD: 'What is thy name, that when thy words come to pass we may do thee honour?'

King James Version (1611)
And Manoah said vnto the Angel of the Lord, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to passe, we may doe thee honour?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Manoe said to the angel of the Lord, What is thy name, that when thy word shall come to pass, we may glorify thee?

English Revised Version
And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy words come to pass we may do thee honour?

Berean Standard Bible
Then Manoah said to Him, "What is Your name, so that we may honor You when Your word comes to pass?"

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Manue seide to hym, What name is to thee, that if thi word be fillid, we onoure thee?

Young's Literal Translation
And Manoah saith unto the messenger of Jehovah, `What [is] thy name? when thy words come to pass, then we have honoured thee.'

Update Bible Version
And Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, What is your name, that, when your words come to pass, we may honor you?

Webster's Bible Translation
And Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, What [is] thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass, we may do thee honor?

World English Bible
Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, What is your name, that when your words happen, we may honor you?

New King James Version
Then Manoah said to the Angel of the LORD, "What is Your name, that when Your words come to pass we may honor You?"

New Living Translation
Then Manoah asked the angel of the Lord , "What is your name? For when all this comes true, we want to honor you."

New Life Bible
Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, "What is your name? So we may honor you when your words come true."

New Revised Standard
Then Manoah said to the angel of the Lord , "What is your name, so that we may honor you when your words come true?"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then said Manoah unto the messenger of Yahweh, What is thy name, - that, when thy word cometh to pass, we may do thee honour?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to him: What is thy name, that, if thy word shall come to pass, we may honour thee?

Revised Standard Version
And Mano'ah said to the angel of the LORD, "What is your name, so that, when your words come true, we may honor you?"

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, "What is your name, so that when your words come to pass, we may honor you?"

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ Manoah said to the angel of God, "Please, stay with us a little longer; we'll prepare a meal for you—a young goat." ¹⁶ God 's angel said to Manoah, "Even if I stay, I won't eat your food. But if you want to prepare a Whole-Burnt-Offering for God , go ahead—offer it!" Manoah had no idea that he was talking to the angel of God. ¹⁷ Then Manoah asked the angel of God, "What's your name? When your words come true, we'd like to honor you." ¹⁸ The angel of God said, "What's this? You ask for my name? You wouldn't understand—it's sheer wonder." ¹⁹So Manoah took the kid and the Grain-Offering and sacrificed them on a rock altar to God who works wonders. As the flames leapt up from the altar to heaven, God 's angel also ascended in the altar flames. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown to the ground. Manoah and his wife never saw the angel of God again. Only then did Manoah realize that this was God 's angel. He said to his wife, "We're as good as dead! We've looked on God!" But his wife said, "If God were planning to kill us, he wouldn't have accepted our Whole-Burnt-Offering and Grain-Offering, or revealed all these things to us—given us this birth announcement." The woman gave birth to a son. They named him Samson. The boy grew and God blessed him. The Spirit of God began working in him while he was staying at a Danite camp between Zorah and Eshtaol. ²²Samson And then the People of Israel were back at it again, doing what was evil in God 's sight. God put them under the domination of the Philistines for forty years. At that time there was a man named Manoah from Zorah from the tribe of Dan. His wife was barren and childless. The angel of God appeared to her and told her, "I know that you are barren and childless, but you're going to become pregnant and bear a son. But take much care: Drink no wine or beer; eat nothing ritually unclean. You are, in fact, pregnant right now, carrying a son. No razor will touch his head—the boy will be God's Nazirite from the moment of his birth. He will launch the deliverance from Philistine oppression." The woman went to her husband and said, "A man of God came to me. He looked like the angel of God—terror laced with glory! I didn't ask him where he was from and he didn't tell me his name, but he told me, ‘You're pregnant. You're going to give birth to a son. Don't drink any wine or beer and eat nothing ritually unclean. The boy will be God's Nazirite from the moment of birth to the day of his death.'" Manoah prayed to God : "Master, let the man of God you sent come to us again and teach us how to raise this boy who is to be born." God listened to Manoah. God's angel came again to the woman. She was sitting in the field; her husband Manoah wasn't there with her. She jumped to her feet and ran and told her husband: "He's back! The man who came to me that day!" Manoah got up and, following his wife, came to the man. He said to him, "Are you the man who spoke to my wife?" He said, "I am." Manoah said, "So. When what you say comes true, what do you have to tell us about this boy and his work?" The angel of God said to Manoah, "Keep in mind everything I told the woman. Eat nothing that comes from the vine: Drink no wine or beer; eat no ritually unclean foods. She's to observe everything I commanded her." Manoah said to the angel of God, "Please, stay with us a little longer; we'll prepare a meal for you—a young goat." God 's angel said to Manoah, "Even if I stay, I won't eat your food. But if you want to prepare a Whole-Burnt-Offering for God , go ahead—offer it!" Manoah had no idea that he was talking to the angel of God. Then Manoah asked the angel of God, "What's your name? When your words come true, we'd like to honor you." The angel of God said, "What's this? You ask for my name? You wouldn't understand—it's sheer wonder." So Manoah took the kid and the Grain-Offering and sacrificed them on a rock altar to God who works wonders. As the flames leapt up from the altar to heaven, God 's angel also ascended in the altar flames. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown to the ground. Manoah and his wife never saw the angel of God again. Only then did Manoah realize that this was God 's angel. He said to his wife, "We're as good as dead! We've looked on God!" ²³ But his wife said, "If God were planning to kill us, he wouldn't have accepted our Whole-Burnt-Offering and Grain-Offering, or revealed all these things to us—given us this birth announcement."

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Exodus 3:13 - What is his name Judges 13:6 - his name

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, what is thy name,.... Who art thou, and by what name art thou called? for since he could not prevail upon him to stay and eat a meal with him, he desired to know his name, and where he lived, that when he heard his name mentioned he might speak well of him, or send to him upon occasion; or if any message was sent from him, as Jarchi suggests, that he might show a respect to him, and observe it: and particularly,

that when thy sayings come to pass, we may do thee honour? say that such a prophet, whose name is such, and lives in such a place, foretold these things; or that they might send him a present, in gratitude for, and as a reward of his service and trouble; so the reward of a labourer, and the maintenance of a Gospel minister, is called "honour", 1 Timothy 5:17 and thus Josephus o understood it, that they might give him thanks, and send him a present.

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

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Do thee honor - If applied to a man, it would be by gifts, such for instance as Balak promised to the prophet Balaam Numbers 22:17, and such as were usually given to seers 1Sa 9:7-8; 2 Kings 5:5, 2 Kings 5:15 : if to God, it would be by sacrifices Isaiah 43:23.