SEV Biblia, Chapter 13:12
Entonces Manoa dijo: Cúmplase pues tu palabra. ¿Qué orden se tendrá con el niño, y qué ha de hacer?
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 12. And Manoah said, now let thy words come to pass , etc.] Which was not only a wish that they might, but a prayer of faith that they would come pass: how shall we order the child? and how shall we do unto him ? he believed a child would be born, and as he was to be a Nazarite, he knew what were the rules and orders to be observed concerning one in common; but as he was to be an extraordinary one, he was desirous of knowing what particular laws and rules were to be observed with respect to him, or what more was to be done to him than to another: the words may be rendered, as in the margin of our Bibles, “what shall be the judgment of the child, and his work?” and seems to relate not to what should be done to it, but what that should do; for being an extraordinary Nazarite, he supposed that some extraordinary work would be done by him, and he was curious to know it; and so Abarbinel interprets it of his request to know things future and wonderful, that should be done after the child was grown up; but this the angel chose not to inform him of, since it might have been prejudicial to them, should the Philistines get knowledge that this child would be a judge and saviour of Israel, and do such and such things to them as he did, they would have sought to have slain his wife while she bare him, or the child when born; and it may be observed, that though the angel told the woman at first, that he should “begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines”, ( Judges 13:5), yet she said nothing of it to her husband, nor did the angel repeat it.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 8-14 - Blessed are those who have not seen, and yet, as Manoah, have believed Good men are more careful and desirous to know the duty to be done by them, than to know the events concerning them: duty is ours, events ar God's. God will guide those by his counsel, who desire to know their duty, and apply to him to teach them. Pious parents, especially, wil beg Divine assistance. The angel repeats the directions he had befor given. There is need of much care for the right ordering both of ourselves and our children, that we may be duly separate from the world, and living sacrifices to the Lord.
Original Hebrew
ויאמר 559 מנוח 4495 עתה 6258 יבא 935 דבריך 1697 מה 4100 יהיה 1961 משׁפט 4941 הנער 5288 ומעשׂהו׃ 4639
