Click to enable/disable _gid - Google Analytics Cookie. "Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man.". I. But God takes means to make them feel what such a state comes to. You've been saying who's Abimelech? i. It does not matter what the line taken may be, no good end will ever be owned by God unless the way be according to His word and righteousness. They looked upon this hold as both a fort and a sanctuary; but it saved them not. (Trapp). If we turn away our ear from hearing the law, our prayer will be an abomination,Proverbs 28:9. Over there you can hear children miles away, dogs barking and so forth. In Him we may confide, who loves us to the end. That those who are advanced to honour and dignity are in great danger of losing their fatness and fruitfulness. All are aware there are a great many who try to explain the difficulty away or soften it down. Let fire come out - The propriety of the image is strictly preserved, for even the thorns of the worthless bramble might kindle a flame which would burn the stately cedars to the ground. Judges 9:8 - Bible Verse Meaning and Commentary Yet there is a more secure tower than the tower of Shechem. The law was right there, but Israel refused to read or heed it. Now they could deal with guilty Benjamin. i. And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and killed the people that were therein, and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt. 7 - 21. Not only were they in slavery, but content to be slaves, yea, traitors. But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it; and we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel. His kingdom probably consisted only of Shechem and a few towns round about (9:1-6). But Jotham hid himself. And the men of Shechem set men in ambush against him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who passed by them along that way; and it was told Abimelech. The trees once went forth to anoint a king over them: In the parable told by Jotham, the worthy trees (such as the olive, the fig, and the vine) didnt want to be king; but the unworthy bramble agreed to be king. The chief administrator in Shechem pretended to be on their side, but secretly he sent news to Abimelech (26-33). Nederlandstalige Bijbelstudies door Stan Marinussen, Copyright - Enduring Word | . And I don't know what phenomena it is that creates it but sound would have to carry for Jesus to be able to address such large multitudes of people.Even down by the beach there is Caesarea right near the Mediterranean in an amphitheater that is there that was built by the Romans. But if not, let fire come from Abimelech and devour the men of Shechem and Beth Millo; and let fire come from the men of Shechem and from Beth Millo and devour Abimelech! And Jotham ran away and fled; and he went to Beer and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother. Having decided out of their own heads, they then turn to God, and ask Him to bless them in their efforts to exterminate Benjamin. You come and reign over us! Indeed this is found regularly throughout the book of Judges. His father and mother remonstrate in vain.
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