Judges 9:23
God <0430> [A.M. 2771. B.C. 1233. An. Ex. Is. 258. God.]
That is, God permitted the evil spirit of jealousy, treachery, and discord, to break out between Abimelech and the Shechemites.
disloyal <0898> [dealt.]
Judges 9:39
Judges 9:47
Judges 9:26
brothers <0251> [brethren.]
Judges 9:46
stronghold <06877> [an hold.]
Judges 9:6
Beth <01004> [the house.]
Millo <04407> [Millo.]
Probably the name of a person of note in Shechem.
oak <0436> [plain. or, oak.]
Judges 9:25
Judges 20:5
leaders <01167> [And the men.]
surrounded <05437> [beset.]
concubine <06370> [and my concubine.]
badly <06031> [forced. Heb. humbled.]
Judges 9:2-3
want <02896> [Whether, etc. Heb. What is good? whether, etc. threescore.]
blood <06106> [your bone.]
spoke <01696> [spake.]
Abimelech <0310> [to follow. Heb. after. our brother.]
Judges 9:7
Mount Gerizim <01630 02022> [mount Gerizim.]
Listen ........... listen <08085> [Hearken.]
Judges 9:18
attacked <06965> [are risen.]
Abimelech <040> [Abimelech.]
Judges 9:20
fire blaze from ............. fire ... blaze from <03318 0784> [let fire come out.]
Judges 9:24
violent <02555> [That the.]
murdered .................. helped ... murder <02026 02388> [aided him in the killing of. Heb. strengthened his hands to kill.]
Sooner or later, God will make inquisition for blood, and will return it on the heads of those that shed it. Accessaries will be reckoned with, as well as principals, in that and other sins. The Shechemites, who countenanced Abimelech's pretensions, aided and abetted him in his bloody project, and avowed the fact by making him king after he had done it, must fall with him, fall by him, and fall first. Those that combine together to do wickedly, are justly dashed in pieces one against another. Blood cannot be a lasting cement to any interest.
