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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Judges 13:5 - 13:5
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thou shalt conceive, and bear a son - This predicted child was to be a Nazarite. The mother was, therefore, for the sake of her promised offspring, required to practice the rigid abstinence of the Nazarite law (see on Num 6:2).
he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines - a prophecy encouraging to a patriotic man; the terms of it, however, indicated that the period of deliverance was still to be distant.