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Offering of Manoah (1641)
Possible Collaboration between Rembrandt and Willem Drost:
Attributed to Rembrandt's Disciple Willem Drost (1633-1659)
Also Attributed to Rembrandt (1606-1669) who Drew Similar Sketches, Notably:
The Angel Ascends after Manoah's Sacrifice (1655)
Dutch Golden Age Baroque Style (Both Artists)
Drost Painting: Gemaldegalerie, Dresden, Germany
Rembrandt Sketch: National Museum of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden
Image Source: The Work of God's Children
SPECIAL NOTE:
[ I will again be working through the Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation. I will be adding links, resources, images, and the like, upgrading the former work-through which began with the 2013-10-12 posting which can be found, along with the full Genesis to Revelation postings, in the Archive Page. Postings will be at midnight Eastern Time, as I am able. However, no chapters will be skipped, even though a posting may be late. And all postings will be housed in the Archive Page. ]
Explanation: As recorded in Judges 13, Samson's birth came after forty years of Philistine oppression of Israel (1).
The wife of Manoah was barren. But the angel of the LORD appeared to her and told her that she would bear a son who would deliver Israel from the Philistines and that she must set him apart as a Nazarite from the time he was born. Accordingly, she must not drink wine or strong drink, or eat anything unclean; and his hair must remain uncut. She told all of these things to her husband (2-7).
Then Manoah begged the LORD to send the angel to them again with further instructions. The Angel appeared to Manoah's wife first, and she went to fetch her husband. Manoah then asked the Angel how to treat the boy; and the Angel gave him the same instructions he had given to his wife earlier (8-14).
So Manoah asked the Angel to tarry until he could prepare an offering for him. But Manoah was unaware that he was talking to the LORD, so the Angel told him to offer the offering to the LORD. When he did so, the Angel of the LORD ascended to heaven in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife fell on their faces (15-20).
The Angel appeared no more; and Manoah knew that he was the Angel of the LORD. He expressed his anxiety to his wife that they would die because they had seen God. But his wife said that if he had intended to kill them he would not have accepted the offering at their hand, nor would he have made all of those revelations to them. So she bore a son and called him Samson. And the child grew and was blessed by the LORD. And from time to time the Spirit of the LORD began to move upon him (21-25).
[ Sermons: Stuart Olyott. Various. ]
[ Illustration: Today's chapter records the birth of Samson; and the painting above depicts the key event in the chapter -- the confirmation that Samson's mother would be freed from her barrenness and bear a son (Samson). ]
RESOURCES
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[ THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES: Judges 13
[1] Judges 3:7; Judges 4:1; Judges 6:1-11; Judges 10:6; Judges 3:31; Judges 10:7-11; Deuteronomy 2:23; Jeremiah 47:4; Genesis 10:14; Genesis 21:32; 1 Samuel 7:13.
[2] 1 Samuel 1:1; Joshua 15:33; Joshua 19:41; 1 Chronicles 11:10; Nehemiah 11:29; Genesis 16:1; Genesis 25:21; 1 Samuel 1:2; Luke 1:7; Luke 1:11; Luke 1:15; Luke 1:31; Luke 2:23; 1 Chronicles 4:3; Genesis 11:30.
[3] Judges 2:1; Judges 6:11; Genesis 18:10; Luke 1:11-28.
[4] Luke 1:15.
[5] Numbers 6.
[6] Matthew 28:3-4.
[7] Luke 1:15; Genesis 49:26; Lamentations 4:7; Amos 2:11.
[14] Numbers 6:3-5.
[16] Judges 6:20; Colossians 2:18; Daniel 10; Revelation 19:10; Revelation 22:8; Genesis 18:8; Genesis 19:3.
[17] Genesis 32:29; Exodus 3:13; Proverbs 30:4; Numbers 22:17.
[19] Judges 6:20-26.
[20] Leviticus 9:24; Numbers 14:5; Ezekiel 1:28.
[22] Judges 6:22; Exodus 33:20; Genesis 32:30; Deuteronomy 5:24.
[24] Ezra 4:8; Judges 5:31; Psalm 19:5-6; Psalm 84:12; Genesis 29:32-35; Genesis 35:18; Luke 1:60; 1 Samuel 2:21-26; 1 Samuel 3:19; Luke 1:80.
[25] Judges 3:10; Amos 2:11; Genesis 41:8; Daniel 2:1; Judges 14:6; Judges 15:14; Judges 16:20; Judges 18:11-12.
-- From Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers ]
[ CHRONOLOGY: GENERAL. Patriarchs (Traditional). Judges # 1. Judges # 2. Kings # 1. Kings # 2. Prophets # 1. Prophets # 2. NT # 1. NT # 2. NT # 3. ]
[ MAPS: Maps # 1. Maps # 2. Maps # 3. Maps # 4. Maps # 5. ]
[ COMMENTARIES, ETC: GENERAL: Bible Study Tools; Bible Hub: Study Light; Blue Letter Bible // PSALMS: Monergism: Precept Austin: The Treasury of David; John Gill; John Calvin - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
[ MUSIC: GENERAL: The Cyber Hymnal // PSALMS: Genevan Psalter (Instrumental). VARIOUS ARTISTS: Micha'el Ben David. Sons of Korah. Fernando Ortega. Janet Isaac Morrison. Music of the Bible Revealed - Suzanne Haik-Vantoura. Dr. David Erb. Gregorian Chants. ]
HARMONY OF THE LAW
HEBREW AND GREEK INTERLINEAR BIBLES
Judges Detailed Outline
Judges 13
Note: The Book of Judges teaches Israel's unfaithfulness. (The previous book, The Book of Joshua, teaches the Lord's faithfulness.)
Note: Some of the Judges may overlap each other chronologically and may have served in only part of the country.
1. The Historical Setting (1:1 - 3:6) - (1390 - 1377 B.C. Israel)
A. The Present Setting [in the Time of the Judges - This is the Second Campaign of Judah] (1:1-7)
B. The Past Setting [in Joshua's Time - First Campaigns of 6 Tribes] (1:8 - 3:6)
2. The History of the Judges (3:7 - 16:31) - (1377 - 1055 B.C. Israel)
1 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
2 And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.
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, and bear a son.
4 Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
5 For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb: and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.
6 Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:
7 But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.
8 Then Manoah intreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.
9 And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband was not with her.
10 And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day.
11 And Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said unto him, Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman? And he said, I am.
12 And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order [What shall be the ordinance of] the child, and how shall we do unto him?
13 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware.
14 She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe.
15 And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid [a kid of goats] for thee.
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.
17 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?
18 And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?
19 So Manoah took a kid [a kid of goats] 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.
20 For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.
21 But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD.
22 And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die [dying we shall die], because we have seen God.
23 But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.
24 And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.
25 And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
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