And Abimelech, having held the gate until his forces had finished their gruesome work outside, fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, leveling it to the ground, and sowed it with salt, to signify that the city was to remain a desert of salt forever (but it was afterward rebuilt. 1 Kings 12:25).
Verse Judges 9:45. _AND SOWED IT WITH SALT._] Intending that the destruction of this city should be a _perpetual_ memorial of his achievements. The _salt_ was not designed to render it _barren_, as s...
SOWED IT WITH SALT - Expressing by this action his hatred, and his wish, that when utterly destroyed as a city, it might not even be a fruitful field. Salt is the emblem of barrenness (see the margina...
CHAPTER 9 ABIMELECH THE KING AND HIS WICKEDNESS _ 1. The murder of Gideon's sons (Judges 9:1)_ 2. Jotham's parable (Judges 9:7) 3. Scenes of strife and destruction of Shechem (Judges 9:22) 4. Abim...
ABIMELECH DESTROYS SHECHEM. These verses seem to contain a second, independent account of the attack on Shechem, the sequel to Judges 9:22. Judges 9:43. Abimelech adopts the same tactics whereby his f...
_sowed it with salt_ Usually explained as a symbolic act shewing that A. had reduced the city to a salt, uninhabitable desert; cf. Deuteronomy 29:23; Jeremiah 17:6; Psalms 107:34;...
_Abimelech destroys Shechem and Migdal-Shechem_ After the Shechemites have suffered the severe defeat just described, and Abimelech has retired and dwelt at Arumah, it is incredible that, on the next...
AND SOWED IT WITH SALT— Salt, in a certain quantity, makes land barren. Hence, in Scripture, _a land of salt_ signifies a barren land; Deuteronomy 29:23. Psalms 107:33.Zephaniah 2:9. Prophane authors...
_The Conspiracy of Gaal Judges 9:22-49_ 22 When Abimelech had reigned three years over Israel, 23 Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt tr...
_AND WHEN ZEBUL THE RULER OF THE CITY HEARD THE WORDS OF GAAL THE SON OF EBED, HIS ANGER WAS KINDLED._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
THE STORY OF ABIMELECH This chapter breaks the regular order of the book, since Abimelech is not thought of as a judge, and the Canaanites are not here regarded as oppressors. The story, however, thr...
To 'sow with salt' (Deuteronomy 29:23) is to make utterly desolate....
LIFE WITHOUT LAW JUDGES _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 9 V1 Abimelech, Jerubbaal’s son, went to his mother’s brothers in Shechem. He spoke to them and he spoke to all his mother’s *tribe. V2 ‘Ask all the...
BEAT DOWN THE CITY. — Comp. 2 Samuel 17:13; Micah 3:12. Sowed it with salt. — Nothing can better show his deadly execration against the populace to whom he owed his elevation, and who had been the ins...
וַ אֲבִימֶ֜לֶךְ נִלְחָ֣ם בָּ † עִ֗יר כֹּ֚ל...
THE BURNING OF THE BRAMBLE Judges 9:41 Terrible deeds like these give tokens of the power of the god of this world, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. Alas, similar atrociti...
The closing statement of the previous chapter constitutes the introduction to this. The words, "As soon as Gideon was dead" and the declaration that then the people returned to evil courses reveal, fi...
Abimelech ruled over Israel for three years and, though he was wicked, is considered to be the next judge. After that time, God caused a spirit of ill will to arise between the men of Shechem and Abim...
And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that [was] therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with (o) salt. (o) That it should be unfruitful...
Sowed salt. To make the ground barren, and fit for nothing; (Challoner) and to testify his eternal hatred towards the place, as salt is the symbol of duration. See Deuteronomy xxix. 23., Sophonias ii....
One general observation runs through the whole of this history, and meets the Reader in every part of it: namely, that God's judgments, sooner or later, overtake the sinner. The Shechemites are first...
My object being no more than a sketch, as most of you know, I desire to say but a few words on such of the Chapter s as bear a similar character to that which has been already pointed out in the early...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9, 10, 11, AND 12. After Gideon's death we see the results of this distance from God in the internal struggles which took place between the children of Israel...
AND ABIMELECH FOUGHT AGAINST THE CITY ALL THAT DAY,.... By throwing stones or arrows into it: AND HE TOOK THE CITY; it was surrendered to him, not being able to stand out against his forces: AND SLE...
And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that [was] therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt. Ver. 45. _He took the city, and slew...
Jdg. 9:45. The end of sowing the place with salt was not to make it barren, for it was a city not a field that is spoken of. But this action seems to have been used in those days as symbolical to sign...
_And sowed it with salt_ In token of his desire of their utter and irrecoverable destruction. For places situated in a salt soil being barren by nature, the sowing of salt upon a place was a symbolica...
1 Abimelech by conspiracie with the Shechemites, and murder of his brethren, is made King. 7 Iotham by a parable rebuketh them and foretelleth their ruine. 22 Gaal conspireth with the Shechemites ag...
30-49 Abimelech intended to punish the Schechemites for slighting him now, but God punished them for their serving him formerly in the murder of Gideon's sons. When God uses men as instruments in his...
Not to make the place barren, as salt will do, for then he would have sowed the fields, not the city; but in token of his detestation and desire of their utter and irrecoverable destruction; for salt...
Judges 9:45 Abimelech H40 fought H3898 (H8738) city H5892 day H3117 took H3920 (H8799) city H5892 killed...
‘ And Abimelech fought against the city all that day, and he took the city and slew the people that were in it, and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.' Having dealt with the people outsid...
CONTENTS: Conspiracy of Abimelech. CHARACTERS: God, Abimelech, Jerubbaal, Jocham, Gaal, Zebul. CONCLUSION: Evil pursues sinners and sometimes overtakes them when they are apparently triumphant. The...
Judges 9:4. _Baal-berith._ Berith signifies a covenant, which those bad people had made with Baal. The Greeks had their ζευς ορκιος, their Jupiter, or their Baal, to which they made vows. Judges 9:5....
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 9:22 The Shechemites, who had made Abimelech their king (vv. Judges 9:1), eventually rebelled against him (vv....
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 9:45 SOWED IT WITH SALT. This physical and also symbolic action turned Shechem into a barren, uninhabitable desert (compare Deuteronomy 29:23;...
CHAPTER 9 _ABIMELECH’S TRAGIC BUT BRIEF HISTORY_ (Judges 9:22.) CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 9:22. HAD REIGNED] ruled by _force_ rather than by _natural right_, implying a hard, as opposed to a mild, rul...
EXPOSITION JUDGES 9:22 HAD REIGNED. The Hebrew word here used is quite a different one from that in Judges 9:8, Judges 9:10,...
Now here's what happened. After the death of Gideon, this Abimelech who was the son of his concubine in Shechem. Now you know, they used to say of the sailors "a girl in every port." Well, Gideon had...
1 Kings 12:25; 2 Kings 3:25; Deuteronomy 29:23; Ezekiel 47:11; J
With salt — In token of his desire of their utter and irrecoverable destruction....