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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...
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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...
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_upon them_ See Judges 9:46 _n._...
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_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...
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_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...
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_AND ALL THE PEOPLE LIKEWISE CUT DOWN EVERY MAN HIS BOUGH, AND
FOLLOWED ABIMELECH, AND PUT THEM TO THE HOLD, AND SET THE HOLD ON FIRE
UPON THEM; SO THAT ALL THE MEN OF THE TOWER OF SHECHEM DIED ALSO,...
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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...
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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...
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וַ יִּכְרְת֨וּ גַם ־כָּל ־הָ עָ֜ם
אִ֣ישׁ
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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...
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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...
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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...
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And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed
Abimelech, and put [them] to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon
them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem (q) died a...
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_And so. Hebrew and Septuagint, "upon them, so that all the men of the
tower of Sichem died also, about a thousand men and women." The
sanctity of the place where they had taken refuge, made no impres...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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AND ALL THE PEOPLE LIKEWISE CUT DOWN EVERY MAN HIS BOUGH, AND FOLLOWED
ABIMELECH,.... With their boughs on their shoulders, so that they were
men that seemed to be as trees walking:
AND PUT THEM TO T...
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And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed
Abimelech, and put [them] to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon
them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also,...
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_Zalmon_ A place so called from its shadiness. _Thebez_ Another town
near Shechem; and, as it seems, within its territory. _Thither fled
all the men and women_ All that were not slain in the taking of...
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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...
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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...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Judges 9:49 each H376 people H5971 down H3772 (H8799) bough H7754
followed H3212 (H8799) H310 Abimelech...
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‘ And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and
followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire
on them, so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, a...
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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...
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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....
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_And Abimelech took an axe in his hand._
THE STORMING OF THE TEMPLE OF BERITH
1. I learn first from this subject, the folly of depending upon any
one form of tactics in anything we have to do for thi...
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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 9:22 The Shechemites, who had made Abimelech
their king (vv. Judges 9:1), eventually rebelled against him (vv....
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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Galatians 5:15; James 3:16; Judges 9:15; Judges 9:20...