Judges 13:22

THE MESSAGE

Samson 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!"

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“We’re certainly going to die,” he said to his wife, “because we have seen God!”

Hebrew Names Version
Manoach said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

King James Version
And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

Lexham English Bible
And Manoah said to his wife, "We will certainly die because we have seen God."

English Standard Version
And Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, for we have seen God."

New Century Version
Manoah said, "We have seen God, so we will surely die."

New English Translation
Manoah said to his wife, "We will certainly die, because we have seen a supernatural being!"

Amplified Bible
So Manoah said to his wife, "We will certainly die, because we have seen God."

New American Standard Bible
So Manoah said to his wife, "We will certainly die, for we have seen God."

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Manoah said vnto his wife, We shal surely dye, because we haue seene God.

Legacy Standard Bible
And on some, who are doubting, have mercy;

Contemporary English Version
Manoah said, "We have seen an angel. Now we're going to die."

Complete Jewish Bible
Manoach said to his wife, "We will surely die, because we have seen God!"

Darby Translation
And Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

Easy-to-Read Version
Manoah said to his wife, "We have seen God. Surely we will die because of this."

George Lamsa Translation
And Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

Good News Translation
Manoah said to his wife, "We are sure to die, because we have seen God!"

Literal Translation
And Manoah said to his wife, Dying we shall die, because we have seen God.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and he sayde vnto his wife: We must dye the death, because we haue sene God.

American Standard Version
And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

Bible in Basic English
And Manoah said to his wife, Death will certainly be our fate, for it is a god whom we have seen.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And sayd vnto his wyfe: We shal surely dye, because we haue seene God.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Manoah said unto his wife: 'We shall surely die, because we have seen God.'

King James Version (1611)
And Manoah said vnto his wife, Wee shall surely die, because wee haue seene God.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Manoe said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

English Revised Version
And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

Berean Standard Bible
"We are going to die," he said to his wife, "for we have seen God!"

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he seide to his wijf, We schulen die bi deeth, for we sien the Lord.

Young's Literal Translation
And Manoah saith unto his wife, `We certainly die, for we have seen God.'

Update Bible Version
And Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

World English Bible
Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

New King James Version
And Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, because we have seen God!"

New Living Translation
and he said to his wife, "We will certainly die, for we have seen God!"

New Life Bible
So Manoah said to his wife, "We will die for sure. For we have seen God."

New Revised Standard
And Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, for we have seen God."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall, die, - for, upon God, have we looked.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to his wife: We shall certainly die, because we have seen God.

Revised Standard Version
And Mano'ah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, for we have seen God."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Manoah said to his wife, "We will surely die, for we have seen God."

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
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

We shall: Genesis 32:30, Exodus 33:20, Deuteronomy 4:38, Deuteronomy 5:26, Isaiah 6:5

we have: John 1:18, John 5:37

Reciprocal: Genesis 28:17 - he was Genesis 43:18 - the men Genesis 48:16 - Angel Exodus 3:6 - hid Exodus 24:10 - saw Exodus 24:11 - laid not Deuteronomy 5:24 - he liveth Joshua 5:13 - a man Judges 6:22 - because Judges 13:6 - terrible Matthew 17:6 - General Luke 1:12 - he Luke 5:8 - Depart Luke 9:34 - and they

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Manoah said unto his wife,.... Being risen from the ground, where they fell on their faces:

we shall surely die, because we have seen God; by which it appears that he not only believed him to be an angel, and not a man, but a divine Person; for though angels are sometimes called "Elohim", the word here used, yet good men were not wont to fear death, or conclude they should die on sight of an angel; but their notion was, that an appearance of God to them was death, and were surprised when it did not follow,

Genesis 32:30.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 13:22. We shall surely die, because we have seen God. — Judges 1:6; Judges 1:6- :.