6Then 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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And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour? …
And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: …
And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can shew us our way that we should go.
And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.
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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