Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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 the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; upon the men in it, or with them, the boughs of trees; it is probable the hold was made of wood, and so could the more easily be set on fire. Jarchi says it was a wood or forest, where they bent the trees, and divided them round about, and made a fence of them; but they would scarcely have left the tower for such a shelter:

so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also; fire being put to the hold, and they burnt in it; the Vulgate Latin version adds, with fire and smoke; for they being boughs of trees just cut down, with which they set fire to the hold, they would not burn easily and clearly, but make a prodigious smoke, with which many might be suffocated, as others burnt with fire; and it is unaccountable that Josephus o should say that faggots of dry wood were taken, and with them fire set to the hold, when the text is so express for it that they were boughs of green trees just cut off:

about a thousand men and women; but the above historian makes them to be many more; he says the men were about 1500, and the rest a great multitude; this literally fulfilled Jotham’s curse.

o Antiqu. l. 5. c. 7. sect. 4.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

49. Set the hold on fire upon them Burned down the house of Baal-berith, so that those who had fled for refuge into its cellars and secret holds perished under its falling ruins. Some, doubtless, were burned, others suffocated by the smoke of the green wood, while others were crushed under falling beams.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

‘ 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, about a thousand men and women.’

The people obeyed his command and returned to the tower with their branches, and then they were piled up outside the fortified tower and set on fire, burning the tower with the people in it, who would no doubt be mercifully suffocated by the smoke. Thus all the priests and attendants of Baal died as well, together with the priestesses of Baal, the sacred prostitutes. Altogether ‘about a thousand’. Thus some hundreds. So was Jotham’s curse fulfilled (Jdg 9:20).

Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett

Jdg 9:49 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, about a thousand men and women.

Ver. 49. All the men of the tower of Shechem. ] Who were, probably, those men of Millo that had helped to make Abimelech king; and so Jotham’s parable was fulfilled.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

put them: Jdg 9:15, Jdg 9:20, Gal 5:15, Jam 3:16

Reciprocal: Jdg 9:52 – General Neh 8:15 – the mount

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

9:49 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 also, about a thousand men and women.

(q) Meaning, that all were destroyed as well as those in the tower.

Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes