Ch 13 / 21~3 min
Shoftim

Chapter 13

A Malak Announces a Deliverer's Birth

The Malak of YHWH announcing Samson's birth to a barren woman — a son set apart from the womb — is a theophanic type of Yeshua's miraculous birth announcement.

  1. The Malak Announces Samson's Birth

    A malak announces Samson's birth to a barren couple. Like many births in Scripture, this one points to Elohim's miraculous initiative.

  2. 1The children of Israel again did that which was evil in YHWH’s sight; and YHWH delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
  3. 2There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and childless.
  4. 3YHWH’s malak appeared to the woman, and said to her, “See now, you are barren and childless; but you shall conceive and bear a son.
  5. 4Now therefore please beware and drink no wine nor strong drink, and don’t eat any unclean thing;
  6. 5for, behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son. No razor shall come on his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to Elohim from the womb. He shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”
  7. 6Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, “A man of Elohim came to me, and his face was like the face of the malak of Elohim, very awesome. I didn’t ask him where he was from, neither did he tell me his name;
  8. 7but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink. Don’t eat any unclean thing, for the child shall be a Nazirite to Elohim from the womb to the day of his death.’”
  9. 8Then Manoah entreated YHWH, and said, “Oh, Adonai, please let the man of Elohim whom you sent come again to us, and teach us what we should do to the child who shall be born.”
  10. 9Elohim listened to the voice of Manoah, and the malak of Elohim came again to the woman as she sat in the field; but Manoah, her husband, wasn’t with her.
  11. 10The woman hurried and ran, and told her husband, saying to him, “Behold, the man who came to me that day has appeared to me.”
  12. 11Manoah arose and followed his wife, and came to the man, and said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?” He said, “I am.”
  13. 12Manoah said, “Now let your words happen. What shall the child’s way of life and mission be?”
  14. 13YHWH’s malak said to Manoah, “Of all that I said to the woman let her beware.
  15. 14She may not eat of anything that comes of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing. Let her observe all that I commanded her.”
  16. The Offering Ascends in Flame

    The malak ascends in the flame of the offering. Watch Manoah and his wife realise they have encountered the living Elohim.

  17. 15Manoah said to YHWH’s malak, “Please stay with us, that we may make a young goat ready for you.”
  18. 16YHWH’s malak 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 YHWH.” For Manoah didn’t know that he was YHWH’s malak.
  19. 17Manoah said to YHWH’s malak, “What is your name, that when your words happen, we may honour you?”
  20. 18YHWH’s malak said to him, “Why do you ask about my name, since it is incomprehensible?”
  21. 19So Manoah took the young goat with the meal offering, and offered it on the rock to YHWH. Then the malak did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched.
  22. 20For when the flame went up towards the sky from off the altar, YHWH’s malak ascended in the flame of the altar. Manoah and his wife watched; and they fell on their faces to the ground.
  23. 21But YHWH’s malak didn’t appear to Manoah or to his wife any more. Then Manoah knew that he was YHWH’s malak.
  24. 22Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, because we have seen Elohim.”
  25. 23But his wife said to him, “If YHWH 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.”
  26. 24The woman bore a son and named him Samson. The child grew, and YHWH blessed him.
  27. 25YHWH’s Ruach began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
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