Judges 13:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Beware, I pray thee; because the child was to be a Nazarite from the womb, Judges 13:5, and from the conception; and because the mother's pollution extends to the child, she is enjoined from this time to observe the following rules belonging to the Nazarites. And drink not wine, nor strong drink; under which by a synecdoche are comprehended the other particulars mentioned Numbers 6:2-4, as is implied Judges 13:14. Any unclean thing; any of those meats forbidden Le 11, which were forbidden to all, but especially to the Nazarites.

Judges 13:4

4 Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing: