Christian Standard Bible
Judges 13:4
4Now please be careful not to drink wine or beer, or to eat anything unclean;
Judges 13:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:
- New International Version (NIV)Now see to it that you drink no wine or other fermented drink and that you do not eat anything unclean.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Therefore be careful and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean,
- New King James Version (NKJV)Now therefore, please be careful not to drink wine or similar drink, and not to eat anything unclean.
Context of Judges 13:4
2There was a certain man from Zorah, from the family of Dan, whose name was Manoah; his wife was unable to conceive and had no children. 3The angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, “Although you are unable to conceive and have no children, you will conceive and give birth to a son. Now please be careful not to drink wine or beer, or to eat anything unclean; 5for indeed, you will conceive and give birth to a son. You must never cut his hair, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from birth, and he will begin to save Israel from the power of the Philistines.” 6Then the woman went and told her husband, “A man of God came to me. He looked like the awe-inspiring angel of God. I didn’t ask him where he came from, and he didn’t tell me his name.
Read all of Judges 13Judges 13:4 word by word
וְעַתָּה֙ הִשָּׁ֣מְרִי נָ֔א וְאַל־תִּשְׁתִּ֖י יַ֣יִן וְשֵׁכָ֑ר וְאַל־תֹּאכְלִ֖י כָּל־טָמֵֽא׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Judges 13:4
- Judges 13:14She must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine or drink wine or beer. And she must not eat anything unclean. Your wife must do everything I have commanded her.”
- Numbers 6:2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When a man or woman makes a special vow, a Nazirite vow, to consecrate himself to the Lord,
- Luke 1:15For he will be great in the sight of the Lord and will never drink wine or beer. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit while still in his mother’s womb.
- Leviticus 11:27All the four-footed animals that walk on their paws are unclean for you. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,
- Acts 10:14“No, Lord!” Peter said. “For I have never eaten anything impure and ritually unclean.”
Commentaries on Judges 13:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Beware - drink not wine - As Samson was designed to be a Nazarite from the womb, it was necessary that, while his mother carried and nursed him, she should live the life of a Nazarite, neither drinking wine nor any inebriating liquor, nor eating any kind of forbidden meat. See the account of the Nazarite and his vow in the notes on Numbers 6:2; (note), etc.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4anything unclean: See Leviticus 11.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2-102. Zorah--a Danite town (Jos 15:33) lying on the common boundary of Judah and Dan, so that it was near the Philistine border.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Judges 13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- Darby Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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