Judges 9:33-44

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can <03027 04672> [as thou shalt find. Heb. as thine hand shall find.]

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Gaal <01603> [Gaal.]

Of this person we know no more than is here recorded. He was probably one of the descendants of the Canaanites, who hoped, from the state of the public mind and their disaffection to Abimelech, to cause a revolution, and thus to restore the ancient government as it was under Hamor, the father of Shechem. Josephus says he was a man of authority, who sojourned with them, with his armed men and kinsmen; and that the Shechemites desired that he would allow them a guard during the vintage.

men <05971> [the people.]

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saw .......................... seeing ... shadows <06738 07200> [seest the shadow.]

Doubdan states, that in some parts of the Holy Land there are many detached rocks scattered up and down, some growing out of the ground, and others fragments broken off from rocky precipices, the shadow of which, it appears, Josephus thought might be most naturally imagined to look like troops of men at a distance, rather than that of the mountains; for he represents Zebul as saying to Gaal, that he mistook the shadow of the rocks for men.

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center <02872> [middle. Heb. navel. Meonenim. or, the regarders of the times.]

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ran from <06440 05127> [he fled before.]

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Arumah <0725> [Arumah.]

This place appears from the next verse to have been near Shechem; and is perhaps the same as Ruma, a village of Galilee, mentioned by Josephus, Bell. 1. iii. c. 9.

Zebul <02083> [Zebul.]

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blocked ........... attacked <06584> [rushed forward.]