Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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 Numbers 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.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Judges 13:5:
Numbers 6:2-8
Judges 13:2
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