Judges 9:42
What meaning of the judges 9:42 in the Bible?
What does Judges 9:42 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech."
What does Judges 9:42 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech."
After Gaal’s expulsion, “the people went out into the field,” either to complete the vintage, or for some other agricultural operation. “They” (Zebul and his party) sent word of this to Abimelech....
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...
_the people went out_ Perhaps to lie in wait for passers by, if we connect this verse with Judges 9:25....
_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...
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...
ON THE MORROW. — This is surprising. Possibly, however, there were important agricultural labours to be finished, and Abimelech had lulled them into security by ostentatiously withdrawing his forces....
וַֽ יְהִי֙ מִֽ מָּחֳרָ֔ת וַ יֵּצֵ֥א הָ עָ֖ם הַ שָּׂדֶ֑ה וַ יַּגִּ֖דוּ לַ אֲבִימֶֽלֶךְ׃...
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 atrocit...
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...
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 Israe...
AND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE MORROW,.... The day after the battle: THAT THE PEOPLE WENT OUT INTO THE FIELD; some think to fight, and try the event of another battle, in order to be freed from Abimelech...
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech. Ver. 42. _Went out into the field,_] viz., To renew the battle, and to rid the country of Abimelec...
_The people went out into the field_ To their usual employments about their land. _He divided them into three companies_ Whereof he kept one with himself, (Judges 9:44,) and put the rest under other c...
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...
THE DEFEAT OF GAAL...
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...
THE PEOPLE WENT OUT INTO THE FIELD; either, first, To renew the fight, and avenge themselves for their last loss, the great God hardening their hearts to their destruction, and the accomplishment of h...
JUDGES 9:42 DAY H4283 PEOPLE H5971 OUT H3318 (H8799) FIELD H7704 TOLD H5046 (H8686) ABIMELECH H40...
‘ And so it happened on the next day, that the people went out into the field, and they told Abimelech.' The next day some of the people who were with Abimelech went from Arumah into the countryside,...
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 9:26). Abimelech was able to stop the revolt, and he burned...
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, ru...
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, Judges 9:12, Judges 9:14, and elsewhere, where the reign of a king is desi...
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...
Judges 9:42...
Went out — to their usual employments about their land....