Verse Judges 9:6. And all the house of Millo] If Millo be the name of a place, it is nowhere else mentioned in the sacred writings. But it is probably the name of a person of note and influence in the city of Shechem - the men of Shechem and the family of Millo.
Millo must have been a fortified place close to, but separate from, Shechem, and perhaps the same as the tower of Shechem mentioned in Judges 9:46. The building or enlarging of the better-known Millo,...
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...
JUDGES 9. THE KINGSHIP AND FALL OF ABIMELECH. The story of Gideon's half-Canaanite son does not equal the finest parts of the book in dramatic interest, but the glimpse which it affords of the relatio...
PLAIN. oak. OF THE PILLAR. Genitive of Apposition. that is to say, the pillar made of oak. See Joshua 24:26. Compare Genesis 28:18; Genesis 28:22;...
_and all the house of Millo_ Follow marg. _and all_ BETH-MILLO, the name of a place not of a family Judges 9:20, cf. 2 Kings 12:20, in the neighbourhood of Shechem, but not the tower of S. mentioned i...
AND ALL THE HOUSE OF MILLO— Bertram, in his book _de Repub. Jud._ is of opinion, that _Millo_ is not a proper name in this place; but that as by the first phrase, _all the men of Shechem,_ are underst...
_Abimelech Made King Judges 9:1-6_ And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, s...
_AND ALL THE MEN OF SHECHEM GATHERED TOGETHER, AND ALL THE HOUSE OF MILLO, AND WENT, AND MADE ABIMELECH KING, BY THE PLAIN OF THE PILLAR THAT WAS IN SHECHEM._ All the men of Shechem ... and all the h...
MILLO] apparently a Shechemite family, or a town near Shechem (Judges 9:20). The word has a different meaning in 1 Kings 9:15; 2 Kings 12:20. KING] Abimelech is no Israelite king, but simply the ruler...
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...
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...
THE HOUSE OF MILLO. — It cannot be determined whether Beth Millo is here a proper name, or whether _Beth_ means the family or inhabitants of Millo. The Chaldee renders Millo by “a rampart;” and if thi...
וַ יֵּאָ֨סְפ֜וּ כָּל ־בַּעֲלֵ֤י שְׁכֶם֙ וְ כָ
“THROUGH SLAUGHTER TO A THRONE” Judges 8:29; Judges 9:1 The Children of Israel were guilty of great fickleness and instability. They soon relapsed into Baal worship and forgot to show kindness to the...
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...
Among Gideon's 70 sons was Abimelech who was born to him of a concubine from Shechem. He got the people of that city to pay him 70 shekels of silver and used it to enlist the help of some worthless an...
And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of (d) Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that [was] in Shechem. (d) Which was as the town house, or...
Mello. We know of no such city in the vicinity of Sichem. Hebrew, "all the house of Millo:" which some take to be the town-house of Sichem, full of the chief citizens, as Mello signifies "filled up;...
See how the dreadful pursuit is marked. It is all written in blood. And to such a wretched state is Israel at this time, as a nation, reduced that instead of punishing, according to God's righteous la...
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 ALL THE MEN OF SHECHEM GATHERED TOGETHER,.... Upon the return of Abimelech, after he with his banditti had committed the execrable murder of his brethren: AND ALL THE HOUSE OF MILLO; which was ei...
And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that [was] in Shechem. Ver. 6. _And all the men of Shechem._] T...
_All the men of Shechem_ That is, the great men, the chief magistrates of the city; _and the house of Millo_ Either some eminent and potent family living in or near Shechem, or the common council, the...
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...
And all the men of Shechem, after this bloody deed, GATHERED TOGETHER, AND ALL THE HOUSE OF MILLO, the name of the fort or citadel of Shechem, AND WENT AND MADE ABIMELECH KING BY THE PLAIN OF THE PILL...
ABIMELECH BECOMES KING...
ABIMELECH'SCONSPIRACY (vv. 1-6). Abimelech did not only forget his father's example, but deliberately chose a contrary path of proud self-pleasing. He wanted to rule over Israel and recognized that...
BY THE PLAIN OF THE PILLAR: Or, by the oak of the pillar. See Joshua 24:26...
1-6 The men of Shechem chose Abimelech king. God was not consulted whether they should have any king, much less who it should be. If parents could see what their children would do, and what they are t...
OF MILLO; of a place or person so called; some eminent and potent family living in Shechem, or near to it; either the family of Abimelech's mother, or some other: or, and _all Beth-millo_; so _Beth_ i...
Judges 9:6 men H1167 Shechem H7927 together H622 (H8735) Beth H1004 Millo H4407 (H8677) H1037 went...
‘And all the men of Shechem assembled themselves together, and all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem.' The rivals now being satisfacto...
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....
_Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal._ THE ELECTION OF THE USURPER TO BE KING I. Contrasts in the history of God’s own people. After Gideon--Abimelech! II. The best of fathers may have the worst of sons...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 9:1 Abimelech rose to power by ruthlessly killing his own brothers, with the help of the Shechemites. He was then “made king” at Shechem (v. Judges 9:6). Jerubbaal
_ABIMELECH MADE KING_ Judges 9:1 CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 9:1. AND ABIMELECH.] Some little time may have elapsed after Gideon’s death, so that the air was again filled with tendencies to idolatry. Be...
EXPOSITION JUDGES 9:1 THE SON OF JERUBBAAL. Throughout this chapter Gideon is spoken of by the name of Jerubbaal. There must be some cause for this. The simplest and most probable cause is that this...
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 12:1; 1 Kings 12:20; 1 Kings 12:25; 2 Kings 12:20; 2 Samuel
House of Millo — Some eminent and potent family living in Shechem, or near it. King — Over all Israel, Judges 9:22, which was a strange presumption for the inhabitants of one city; but they had many a...