12And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?
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And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-14)We have here an account of a second visit which the angel of God made to Manoah and his wife. I. Manoah earnestly prayed for it, Jdg. 13:8. He was not incredulous of the story his wife told him; he knew she was a virtuous woman, and therefore the heart of her husband did safely trust in her ; he knew she would not go about to impose upon him, much less was he, as Josephus unworthily represents him…
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