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◄ Judges 13:19►

New International Version
Then Manoah took a young goat, together with the grain offering, and sacrificed it on a rock to the LORD. And the LORD did an amazing thing while Manoah and his wife watched:

New Living Translation
Then Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered it on a rock as a sacrifice to the LORD. And as Manoah and his wife watched, the LORD did an amazing thing.

English Standard Version
So Manoah took the young goat with the grain offering, and offered it on the rock to the LORD, to the one who works wonders, and Manoah and his wife were watching.

Berean Standard Bible
Then Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the LORD. And as Manoah and his wife looked on, the LORD did a marvelous thing.

King James Bible
So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offeredit upon a rock unto the LORD: andthe angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.

New King James Version
So Manoah took the young goat with the grain offering, and offered it upon the rock to the LORD. And He did a wondrous thing while Manoah and his wife looked on—

New American Standard Bible
So Manoah took the young goat along with the grain offering and offered it on the rock to the LORD; and He performed wonders while Manoah and his wife looked on.

NASB 1995
So Manoah took the young goat with the grain offering and offered it on the rock to the LORD, and He performed wonders while Manoah and his wife looked on.

NASB 1977
So Manoah took the kid with the grain offering and offered it on the rock to the LORD, and He performed wonders while Manoah and his wife looked on.

Legacy Standard Bible
So Manoah took the young goat with the grain offering and offered it on the rock to Yahweh, and He did a wondrous thing while Manoah and his wife looked on.

Amplified Bible
So Manoah took the young goat with the grain offering and offered it on the rock to the LORD, and He performed miracles while Manoah and his wife looked on.

Christian Standard Bible
Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the LORD, who did something miraculous while Manoah and his wife were watching.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the LORD, and He did a wonderful thing while Manoah and his wife were watching.

American Standard Version
So Manoah took the kid with the meal-offering, and offered it upon the rock unto Jehovah: and the angel did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.

Contemporary English Version
So Manoah took a young goat over to a large rock he had chosen for an altar, and he built a fire on the rock. Then he killed the goat, and offered it with some grain as a sacrifice to the LORD. But then an amazing thing happened.

English Revised Version
So Manoah took the kid with the meal offering, and offered it upon the rock unto the LORD: and the angel did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
So Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and sacrificed them to the LORD on a rock he used as an altar. While Manoah and his wife watched, the LORD did something miraculous.

Good News Translation
So Manoah took a young goat and some grain, and offered them on the rock altar to the LORD who works wonders.

International Standard Version
So Manoah prepared a young goat and a grain offering and offered it on a boulder to the LORD, who kept on performing miracles while Manoah and his wife watched continually.

NET Bible
Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the LORD. The LORD's messenger did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched.

New Heart English Bible
So Manoah took the young goat and a grain offering, and offered it on the rock to the LORD, to the LORD who works wonders. And Manoah and his wife looked on.

Webster's Bible Translation
So Manoah took a kid, with a meat-offering, and offered it upon a rock to the LORD; and the angel did wonderously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.

Majority Text Translations

Majority Standard Bible
Then Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the LORD. And as Manoah and his wife looked on, the LORD did a marvelous thing.

World English Bible
So Manoah took the young goat with the meal offering, and offered it on the rock to Yahweh. Then the angel did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched.

Literal Translations

Literal Standard Version
And Manoah takes the kid of the goats, and the present, and offers on the rock to YHWH, and He is doing wonderfully, and Manoah and his wife are looking on,

Young's Literal Translation
And Manoah taketh the kid of the goats, and the present, and offereth on the rock to Jehovah, and He is doing wonderfully, and Manoah and his wife are looking on,

Smith's Literal Translation
And Manoah will take a kid of the goats, and the gift, and will bring up, upon the rock to Jehovah; and he separating to do, and Manoah and his wife seeing.

Catholic Translations

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Manue took a kid of the flocks, and the libations, and put them upon a rock, offering to the Lord, who doth wonderful things: and he and his wife looked on.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And so, Manoah took a kid from the goats, and libations, and he placed them upon a rock, as an offering to the Lord, who accomplishes wonders. Then he and his wife watched.

New American Bible
Then Manoah took a young goat with a grain offering and offered it on the rock to the LORD, who works wonders. While Manoah and his wife were looking on,

New Revised Standard Version
So Manoah took the kid with the grain offering, and offered it on the rock to the LORD, to him who works wonders.

Translations from Aramaic

Lamsa Bible
So Manoah took a kid with the meal offering, and offered it upon a rock to the LORD; and the angel praised the LORD; and Manoah and his wife looked on.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And MaNoah took a kid of the goats and fine wheat flour and offered them up on a rock to LORD JEHOVAH, and he was praising LORD JEHOVAH, and MaNoah and his wife were looking

OT Translations

JPS Tanakh 1917
So Manoah took the kid with the meal-offering, and offered it upon the rock unto the LORD; and [the angel] did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Manoe took a kid of the goats and its meat-offering, and offered it on the rock to the Lord; andthe angel wrought a distinct work, and Manoe and his wife were looking on.

Additional Translations ...

Audio Bible

Context

The Birth of Samson
…18“Why do you ask my name,” said the angel of the LORD, “since it is beyond comprehension?”19Then Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the LORD.And as Manoah and his wife looked on,the LORD did a marvelous thing.20When the flame went up from the altar to the sky, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown to the ground.…

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Cross References

Genesis 22:13
Then Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram in a thicket, caught by its horns. So he went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.

Leviticus 9:24
Fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted for joy and fell facedown.

1 Kings 18:38
Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the sacrifice, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and it licked up the water in the trench.

1 Chronicles 21:26
And there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. He called upon the LORD, who answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.

2 Chronicles 7:1
When Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.

Psalm 20:3
May He remember all your gifts and look favorably on your burnt offerings. Selah

Isaiah 6:6-7
Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a glowing coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. / And with it he touched my mouth and said: “Now that this has touched your lips, your iniquity is removed and your sin is atoned for.”

Ezekiel 10:2
And the LORD said to the man clothed in linen, “Go inside the wheelwork beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And as I watched, he went in.

Daniel 3:25-27
“Look!” he exclaimed. “I see four men, unbound and unharmed, walking around in the fire—and the fourth looks like a son of the gods!” / Then Nebuchadnezzar approached the door of the blazing fiery furnace and called out, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out!” So Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the fire, / and when the satraps, prefects, governors, and royal advisers had gathered around, they saw that the fire had no effect on the bodies of these men. Not a hair of their heads was singed, their robes were unaffected, and there was no smell of fire on them.

Malachi 1:11
For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name, because My name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Matthew 2:11
On coming to the house, they saw the Child with His mother Mary, and they fell down and worshiped Him. Then they opened their treasures and presented Him with gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh.

Matthew 17:5
While Peter was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”

Luke 1:11
Just then an angel of the Lord appeared to Zechariah, standing at the right side of the altar of incense.

Luke 2:9
Just then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.

John 1:14
The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Treasury of Scripture

So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it on a rock to the LORD: and the angel did wondrously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.

took

Judges 6:19,20
And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and broughtit out unto him under the oak, and presentedit…

1 Kings 18:30-38
And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORDthat was broken down…

did wondrously.

Judges 6:21
Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff thatwas in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of his sight.

1 Kings 18:38
Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water thatwas in the trench.

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Judges 13

1.Israel is delivered into the hands of Philistines
2.An angel appears to Manoah's wife
8.The angel appears to Manoah
15.Manoah's sacrifices, whereby the angel is discovered.
24.Samson is born

Study Bible

Book ◦ Chapter

Then Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering
In the context of ancient Israelite worship, offerings were a central part of expressing devotion and seeking favor from God. The young goat, or "kid," was a common sacrificial animal, symbolizing atonement and dedication. The grain offering, often made of fine flour, oil, and frankincense, represented the fruits of human labor and thanksgiving. This combination of offerings reflects a holistic approach to worship, involving both animal sacrifice and the produce of the land, indicating a complete dedication to God.

and offered them on a rock to the LORD.
The use of a rock as an altar is significant, as it suggests a natural, unhewn place of sacrifice, which aligns with the instructions given inExodus 20:25 about building altars. This act of offering on a rock signifies purity and simplicity in worship, free from human alteration. Offering to the LORD indicates a direct act of worship and submission to Yahweh, the covenant God of Israel, who is distinct from the pagan deities of the surrounding nations.

And as Manoah and his wife looked on,
The presence of Manoah and his wife as witnesses to the offering underscores the communal aspect of worship and the importance of family in spiritual practices. Their observation of the event highlights their active participation and anticipation of God's response. This moment also emphasizes the role of both husband and wife in the spiritual life of the family, reflecting the biblical theme of partnership in faith.

the LORD did a marvelous thing.
The "marvelous thing" refers to a miraculous event, often seen as a divine confirmation of God's presence and approval. In the broader biblical narrative, such acts are signs of God's power and involvement in human affairs, often serving as a precursor to significant events or revelations. This phrase connects to other instances in Scripture where God performs wonders, such as the burning bush inExodus 3 or the fire from heaven in1 Kings 18, symbolizing divine intervention and the fulfillment of His promises.

Persons / Places / Events

1.Manoah
The father of Samson, Manoah is a Danite who seeks to understand the divine message regarding the birth of his son. His interaction with the angel of the LORD demonstrates his desire for clarity and reverence for God.

2.Angel of the LORD
A divine messenger who appears to Manoah and his wife, announcing the birth of Samson. This figure is often seen as a theophany, a pre-incarnate appearance of Christ, due to the divine attributes and authority displayed.

3.Manoah's Wife
Though unnamed, she plays a crucial role in receiving the initial message from the angel. Her faith and obedience are pivotal in the account.

4.Offering on the Rock
Manoah offers a young goat and a grain offering on a rock to the LORD, which is consumed by fire, signifying divine acceptance and presence.

5.Zorah
The town in the territory of Dan where Manoah and his family live. It serves as the setting for the announcement of Samson's birth.

Teaching Points

Divine Encounter
The presence of the angel of the LORD signifies God's direct involvement in the lives of His people. We should seek to recognize and respond to God's presence in our daily lives.

Faith and Obedience
Manoah and his wife's response to the angel's message demonstrates faith and obedience. We are called to trust and act upon God's word, even when the full picture is not clear.

God's Sovereignty
The miraculous announcement of Samson's birth underscores God's control over life and His plans. We can find comfort in knowing that God is sovereign over our circumstances.

Worship and Reverence
Manoah's offering and the subsequent divine fire teach us about the importance of worship and reverence for God. Our worship should be sincere and rooted in a deep respect for His holiness.

Preparation for God's Work
Just as Samson was set apart for a specific purpose, we too are called to prepare ourselves for the work God has for us. This involves spiritual discipline and dedication.

Bible Study Questions and Answers

1.What is the meaning of Judges 13:19?

2.How does Judges 13:19 demonstrate God's acceptance of Manoah's offering?

3.What can we learn about worship from Manoah's actions in Judges 13:19?

4.How does the angel's presence in Judges 13:19 connect to other angelic visitations?

5.How can we apply Manoah's reverence to our daily worship practices?

6.What does Judges 13:19 teach about God's response to sincere offerings today?

7.What is the significance of the angel's appearance in Judges 13:19?

8.How does Judges 13:19 relate to the concept of divine intervention?

9.Why is Manoah's offering important in Judges 13:19?

10.What are the top 10 Lessons from Judges 13?

11.In Judges 13:19–20, how can an angel ascend in a flame without contradicting basic scientific principles?

12.What are the family idols mentioned in the Bible?

13.Who is the Angel of the Lord?

14.In Judges 13:17–18, why does the angel refuse to give his name, raising questions about authenticity and origin?

What Does Judges 13:19 Mean

Then Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering

• Manoah responds to the angel’s message with tangible obedience, bringing both an animal and a grain gift (Leviticus 3:12–13;Numbers 15:4-5).

• The pairing highlights completeness: the goat speaks of atonement, while the grain (fine flour mingled with oil) represents thanksgiving and dedication (Leviticus 2:1-2).

• This is not a spur-of-the-moment act; it reflects confidence that God’s word about Samson is already trustworthy and deserving of worship (1 Samuel 1:24–28).

and offered them on a rock to the LORD

• The rock serves as an impromptu altar, recalling earlier encounters where God met His people outside formal sanctuary settings—Jacob at Bethel (Genesis 28:18), Gideon in this same region (Judges 6:20-21).

• Offering “to the LORD” signifies conscious covenant worship, not mere custom. The text underscores that Yahweh is personally present and actively receiving the sacrifice (Exodus 20:24-25).

• A rock altar also reinforces that God’s presence sanctifies ordinary places, foreshadowing Jesus, the true “spiritual Rock” (1 Corinthians 10:4).

And as Manoah and his wife looked on

• Both husband and wife are witnesses. Scripture honors the joint faith of this couple—important in a period where “everyone did what was right in his own eyes” (Judges 17:6).

• Observing the sacrifice readies them to perceive God’s work; devotion positions us to see His power (Psalm 34:8;John 11:40).

• Their shared gaze anticipates their shared parenting of Samson, a calling requiring united trust (Judges 13:8).

the LORD did a marvelous thing

• The “marvelous thing” comes in vv. 20-21: “the flame went up from the altar toward heaven, and the Angel of the LORD ascended in the flame”.

• This visible sign authenticates the message and the messenger (Exodus 3:2;1 Kings 18:38-39).

• The couple’s awe (“they fell on their faces to the ground,” v. 20) demonstrates the proper reaction to divine revelation—worship, not curiosity alone.

• God’s marvel also reassures them that His promise about Samson’s birth will surely happen (Luke 1:34-38;Romans 4:20-21).

summary

Manoah’s simple yet sincere sacrifice, offered on a rock, models obedient faith. As the couple watches, God turns an ordinary moment into a spectacular affirmation of His presence and promise.Judges 13:19 shows that when we act on God’s word with wholehearted devotion, He delights to confirm His purposes in ways that leave no doubt He is at work.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(19)Did wonderously.--With a reference to theword peliin the previous verse. (Comp.Judges 6:20-26.)

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 19. -Offered it, etc. He had the angel's sanction for doing so in ver. 16. But we must not look for strict compliance with the Levitical law in the lawless days of the Judges, though we find many of its prescribed ordinances in use, as, for instance, the institution of Nazarites, and here the offering of the meat offering with the burnt offering (Leviticus 2:1, etc.).And the angel. These words are rightly inserted, to give the sense of the original, as more fully explained in the following verse.Did wonderously - literally,was wondrous in his doing. The verb here is the same root as the substantive or adjectivewonder, orwonderful,in ver. 18. Compare the similar account inJudges 6:21.

Parallel Commentaries ...

Hebrew

Then Manoah
מָנ֜וֹחַ(mā·nō·w·aḥ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4495:Manoah -- father of Samson

took
וַיִּקַּ֨ח(way·yiq·qaḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3947:To take

a young goat
גְּדִ֤י(gə·ḏî)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1423:A kid (a young goat)

and a grain offering
הַמִּנְחָ֔ה(ham·min·ḥāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4503:A donation, tribute, a sacrificial offering

and offered them
וַיַּ֥עַל(way·ya·‘al)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5927:To ascend, in, actively

on
עַל־(‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921:Above, over, upon, against

a rock
הַצּ֖וּר(haṣ·ṣūr)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6697:A cliff, a rock, boulder, a refuge, an edge

to the LORD,
לַֽיהוָ֑ה(Yah·weh)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068:LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

and as Manoah
וּמָנ֥וֹחַ(ū·mā·nō·w·aḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4495:Manoah -- father of Samson

and his wife
וְאִשְׁתּ֖וֹ(wə·’iš·tōw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 802:Woman, wife, female

looked on,
רֹאִֽים׃(rō·’îm)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 7200:To see

the LORD did
לַעֲשׂ֔וֹת(la·‘ă·śō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 6213:To do, make

a marvelous thing.
וּמַפְלִ֣א(ū·map̄·li)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 6381:To separate, distinguish, to be, great, difficult, wonderful

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OT History: Judges 13:19 So Manoah took the kid (Jd Judg. Jdg)