Judges 13:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the campd of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol. ”

• Judges 13:25 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  In the camp of Dan - Rather, “Mahaneh-Dan” (see the margin). The impulses of the Spirit of the Lord perhaps took the shape of burning indignation at the subjection of his brethren, and thoughts a...

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• Judges 13:25 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  the Spirit. Hebrew. ruach. App-9. began. They had yet to wait. Compare Judges 15:20 . move him . stir him with trouble. See Genesis 41:8 ; Psalms 77:3 . Daniel 2:1 ; Daniel 2:3 . at ti...

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• Judges 13:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol. The Spirit of the Lord began to move him - He felt the degrading bondage of his countrymen, and a s...

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• Judges 13:25 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  The spirit of the Lord began to move him— The Chaldee renders it, the spirit of fortitude, or courage. Very early the Spirit of God gave marks of his presence with him, by some extraordinary th...

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• Judges 13:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol. The Spirit of the Lord began to move him at times - not probably as it moved the prophets,...

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• Judges 13:25 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Story of Samson Except for Judges 15:20 and Judges 16:31 , Samson has none of the characteristics of a Judge. His exploits against the Philistines are all solitary, and though they doubtles...

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• Judges 13:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The Spirit of the Lord. — Judges 3:10 . The Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it rightly, “The spirit of courage from Jehovah.” Amos ( Amos 2:11 ) ranks Nazarites with prophets. “Different as may be...

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• Judges 13:25 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  SAMSON PLUNGING INTO LIFE Judges 13:24-25 ; Judges 14:1-20 Or all who move before us in the Book of Judges Samson is preeminently the popular hero. In rude giant strength and wild daring he st...

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• Judges 13:25 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Promise Fulfilled Judges 13:15-25 Manoah's wife comforted her husband with admirable tact. How often her words come back to us, at the different stages of life! The fact that God continues...

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• Judges 13:25 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Once again we read that "Israel again did that which was evil," and once again they were delivered to discipline at the hands of their enemies. In this connection we have one of the strangest stories...

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• Judges 13:25 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Samson, like Shemesh, signifies a sun: probably typical of Him, who is emphatically called, the Sun of righteousness. Malachi 4:2 . And perhaps in allusion to his great strength. For the sun is said...

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• Judges 13:25 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE HEBREW HERCULES ‘And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the Lord blessed him. And the Spirit of the Lord began to move him at times in the camp of Dan be...

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• Judges 13:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And the Spirit of the Lord began to move him at times in the camp of Dan ,.... To go out into it, in order to be trained up in and inured to military exercises; or it began to "strike" his mind, inj...

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• Judges 13:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol. Ver. 25. And the Spirit of the Lord began to move him at times. ] Or, Hither and thither, as the...

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• Judges 13:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The Lord blessed him That is, endowed him with all those graces and gifts of mind and body which were necessary for the work he was designed for. The Spirit of the Lord began to move him To excit...

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• Judges 13:25 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  AMSON'S BIRTH PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED (vv. 1-25) After this, because of Israel's further disobedience, the Lord brought them under bondage to the Philistines for forty long years (v. 1). In this ca...

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• Judges 13:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Birth of Samson. B. C. 1161.       24 And the woman bare a son, and called his name Sams...

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• Judges 13:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  To move him at times, i.e. to stir him up to heroical designs; to show forth his power in him in the frame of his mind, and in the strength of his body, discovered to his neighbours in extraordinar...

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• Judges 13:25 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘And the Spirit of Yahweh began to move him in Mahaneh-dan (‘the camp of Dan'), between Zorah and Eshtaol.' The place was called ‘the camp of Dan' because it was there that the Danites who had previo...

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• Judges 13:25 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  NEW OPPRESSORS AND A NEW DELIVERER In fixing the date at which Samson appeared, it must be remembered that great diversity of opinion exists, as to the exact chronology of the whole period between t...

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• Judges 13:25 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Judges 13:16 I. We must first ask what principles, regarding the way in which God works deliverance for man, were taught by Samson. (1) The first principle impressed on the minds of his contempora...

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• Judges 13:25 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Judges 13:1 . Forty years. There are no exact dates of the commencement and termination of this servitude. Therefore to harmonize it with the four hundred and eighty years from the going out of Eg...

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• Judges 13:25 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Manoah; and his wife. The angelic appearances to Manoah and his wife I. The unknown visitor. Manoah’s wife was just the woman to be visited by an angel--bold, energetic, large-hearted, believin...

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• Judges 13:25 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Judges 13:1 Did evil again . It by no means follows from this phrase that this chapter is in direct chronological sequence to the preceding The scene is shifted to the tribe of...

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• Judges 13:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Second Appearance of the Angel

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• Judges 13:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 11:6 ; John 3:34 ; Joshua 15:33 ; Judges 11:29 ; Judges 18:11 ; Judges 3:10 ; Judges 6:34 ; Matthew 4:1

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• Judges 13:25 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Samson Judges Israel Judges 13:11-25 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The period of the Judges revealed times immediately following the death of Joshua. 1. The period of the Judges, as a whole, is summed...

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• Judges 13:25 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  To move — That is, to stir him up to heroical designs; to shew forth its power in the frame of his mind, and in the strength of his body, discovered to his neighbours in extraordinary actions; to e...

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