Judges 13:10
And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day. And the woman made haste, and ran, and shewed her husband, and said unto him, Behold, the man hath appeared unto me, that came unto me the other day.
Manoah of the tribe of Dan and his childless wife lived at Zorah as one of the few households that remained true to Jehovah amid widespread apostasy and Philistine oppression. The man in the verse is the Angel of Jehovah, a heavenly messenger and man of God, Christ himself. The verse records the wife making haste to seek her husband and tell him that the same man who came to her before had appeared again, describing the angel and repeating his message.
The message she repeated promised that she would have a son through whom God would begin to deliver Israel. She reported at once because husband and wife feared mistake in the important work committed to them, so as to bring him into the promise and instructions. Her report led Manoah to pray and seek for the man of God to come again to teach them what they should do for the child to be born.
God designed Samson to accomplish a great work for Israel that would require careful thought and vigorous action, so from the very outset He surrounded him with the most favorable conditions for physical strength, intellectual vigor, and moral purity. The angel gave definite instructions for the mother's own habits and conduct before the child's birth, including warnings about what she should consume, and for the treatment of the child as a Nazarite from birth to be raised with temperate habits; the announcement and instructions were important to the child's welfare and show that God cares about such matters. God's power combined with human effort ennobles and uplifts, and observing simplicity in all habits by restricting the appetite and controlling the passions keeps mental powers strong, active, and vigorous, quick to perceive what demands thought or action, keen to discriminate between the holy and the unholy, and ready for every enterprise for the glory of God and the benefit of humanity, while habits at war with natural law soil, dim, and bury rare intellectual powers in self-indulgence. The episode shows the importance of God's directions to parents before a child's birth and offers mothers a model of asking God how to guide, care for, instruct, and restrain their children and of sharing the guidance received with their husbands.