Bible Commentary

And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire. Went hard unto the door … – i. e. went close to the door. An act of manifest danger, seeing the roof was covered with persons who would be likely to … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Judges 9:52”

But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut [it] to them, and got them up to the top of the tower. 51. and all they of the city ] (even) all the citizens of the city, the same … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Judges 9:51”

Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it. 50 57 . The end of Abimelech 50 . Thebez ] 2Sa 11:21, probably the modern bs, about 10 m. N.E. of Nblus on the road to Bsn; so Eusebius, On. Sacr., 262, 44. Perhaps Thebez had been subject to Abimelech and had … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Judges 9:50”

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. 49. upon them ] See Jdg 9:46 n. Fuente: … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Judges 9:49”

And Abimelech got him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that [were] with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid [it] on his shoulder, and said unto the people that [were] with him, What ye have seen … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Judges 9:48”

And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together. And it was told Abimelech,…. Who had his spies about, and particularly to observe the motions of the men in this tower: that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together; in the hold of … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Judges 9:47”

And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard [that], they entered into a hold of the house of the god Berith. 46. the tower of Shechem ] Migdal-Shechem or Tower of Shechem, not the citadel of S., but an unwalled village in the neighbourhood, marked by a tower, cf. Jdg 8:9; Jdg … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Judges 9:46”

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. 45. sowed it with salt ] Usually explained as a symbolic act shewing that A. had reduced the city to a salt, uninhabitable desert; … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Judges 9:45”

And Abimelech, and the company that [was] with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two [other] companies ran upon all [the people] that [were] in the fields, and slew them. 44. the companies that were ] Read the company that was, with Vulgate and some … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Judges 9:44”

And he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people [were] come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them. 43. three companies ] Cf. Jdg 7:16. Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges Three … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Judges 9:43”