Judges 13:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?

Judges 13:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 32:29
And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
Isaiah 9:6
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Judges 13:6
Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God, very terrible: but I asked him not whence he was, neither told he me his name:

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Angel (holy Trinity)Atheism Attributes of God God Guidance Lord Majesty Manoah

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 15-23)

We have here an account, I. Of what further passed between Manoah and the angel at this interview. It was in kindness to him that while the angel was with him it was concealed from him that he was an angel; for, had he known it, it would have been such a terror to him that he durst not have conversed with him as he did (Jdg. 13:16): He knew not that he was an angel. So Christ was in the world, and…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

17-20. Manoah said unto the angel ..., What is thy name?--Manoah’s request elicited the most unequivocal proofs of the divinity of his supernatural visitor--in his name “secret” (in the Margin, “wonderful”), and in the miraculous flame that betokened the acceptance of the sacrifice. Jud 13:24, 25. Samson Born.