Created Sunday 27 January 2013
(14) Rigters 13:8-20
"8 En Manóag het tot die HERE gebid en gesê: Ag, Here, laat tog die man van God wat U gestuur het, nog 'n keer na ons toe kom, dat hy ons kan leer hoe ons moet maak met die seun wat gebore sal word. 9 En God het geluister na die stem van Manóag, sodat die Engel van God nog 'n keer na die vrou gekom het terwyl sy in die veld sit en haar man Manóag nie by haar was nie. 10 En die vrou het haastig geloop en haar man dit vertel en vir hom gesê: Kyk, die man het aan my verskyn wat die ander dag na my gekom het. 11 Toe staan Manóag op en loop agter sy vrou aan, en hy kom by die man en vra hom: Is U die man wat met dié vrou gespreek het? Toe sê Hy: Ja. 12 Daarop vra Manóag: As u woorde nou uitkom, wat moet die leefwyse en die werk van die seun wees? 13 Toe sê die Engel van die HERE aan Manóag: Vir alles wat Ek aan die vrou gesê het, moet sy haar in ag neem. 14 Van alles wat van die wingerdstok afkomstig is, mag sy nie eet nie; en geen wyn of sterk drank moet sy drink nie en niks eet wat onrein is nie; alles wat Ek haar beveel het, moet sy onderhou. 15 Manóag sê aan die Engel van die HERE: Laat ons U tog ophou, dat ons 'n bokkie vir U kan berei. 16 En die Engel van die HERE antwoord Manóag: Al hou jy My op, Ek sal nie van jou brood eet nie; maar as jy 'n brandoffer wil berei, offer dit dan aan die HERE. Want Manóag het nie geweet dat dit die Engel van die HERE was nie. 17 Daarop vra Manóag die Engel van die HERE: Wat is u naam, dat ons U kan vereer as u woord uitkom? 18 En die Engel van die HERE sê vir hom: Waarom vra jy dan na my naam terwyl hy wonderbaar is? 19 Toe neem Manóag die bokkie en die spysoffer en offer dit op die rots aan die HERE terwyl Hy wonderbaarlik handel voor die oë van Manóag en sy vrou: 20 toe die vlam van die altaar opstyg na bo, het die Engel van die HERE in die vlam van die altaar opgevaar; en Manóag en sy vrou het dit gesien en met hulle aangesig op die grond geval."
"Then Manoah prayed to the Lord and said, “O Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us and teach us what we are to do with the child who will be born.” And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field. But Manoah her husband was not with her. So the woman ran quickly and told her husband, “Behold, the man who came to me the other day has appeared to me.” And Manoah arose and went after his wife and came to the man and said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to this woman?” And he said, “I am.” And Manoah said, “Now when your words come true, [Luke 1:66] what is to be the child's manner of life, and what is his mission?” And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, “Of all that I said to the woman let her be careful. She may not eat of anything that comes from the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing. All that I commanded her let her observe.”
Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, “Please let us detain you and (Judg. 6:19; [Gen. 18:5-8]) prepare a young goat for you.” And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, “If you detain me, I will not eat of your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, then offer it to the Lord.” (For Manoah did not know that he was the angel of the Lord.) And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, “What is your name, so that, when your words come true, we may honor you?” And the angel of the Lord said to him, (Gen. 32:29) “Why do you ask my name, seeing ([Isa. 9:6]) it is wonderful?” 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. And when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the Lord went up in the flame of the altar. Now Manoah and his wife were watching, (Lev. 9:24; 1 Chr. 21:16; Ezek. 1:28) and they fell on their faces to the ground. "
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