2And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Irshemesh,
And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,
And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.
Now Sarai Abram's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)The first verse gives us a short account, such as we have too often met with already, of the great distress that Israel was in, which gave occasion for the raising up of a deliverer. They did evil, as they had done, in the sight of the Lord , and then God delivered them, as he had done, into the hands of their enemies. If there had been no sin, there would have needed no Saviour; but sin was suffe…
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