“ Then said all the trees unto the bramble,e Come thou, and reign over us. ”
This fable and that noted in the marginal reference are the only two of the kind found in Scripture. Somewhat different are the parables of the Old Testament, 2 Samuel 12:1-4 ; 2 Samuel 14:5-11 ;...
Jotham's Fable. Only in an apologue could Jotham, the sole survivor of Abimelech's massacre, express what was in his bitter, broken heart. The point of his fable is easily caught. His father and hi...
the bramble. This is prophetic of the false nation under the rule of Antichrist, which will devour the nation as foreshown in Judges 9:20 .
DISCOURSE: 271 JOTHAM’S PARABLE Judges 9:7-15 . And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken un...
Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. Then said all the trees unto the bramble - The word אטד atad, which we translate bramble, is supposed to mean the rhamnus, wh...
Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. Bramble [Rhamnus paliurus, Linnaeus] - southern buckthorn.
The Story of Abimelech This chapter breaks the regular order of the book, since Abimelech is not thought of as a judge, and the Canaanites are not here regarded as oppressors. The story, however,...
Unto the bramble. — Despairing of their best, they avail themselves of the unscrupulous ambition of their worst. The bramble — atad — is rather the rhamnus, or buckthorn, which Dioscorides calls...
the Bramble King Judges 9:7-21 Men must have leadership. The reason lies deep in human nature. The French Revolutionaries destroyed the royal family, but Robespierre, Danton and Marat were prac...
The closing statement of the previous chapter constitutes the introduction to this. The words, "As soon as Gideon was dead" and the declaration that then the people returned to evil courses reveal, f...
It was a very favorite way in the Eastern world, to deliver weighty subjects by parable. And hence, in accommodation to this general mode of instruction, our adorable Redeemer chiefly delivered his p...
Then said all the trees unto the bramble ,.... Perceiving they could not prevail upon any of the useful and fruitful trees to take the government of them, they unite in a request to a bramble, scarc...
Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, [and] reign over us. Ver. 14. Then said all the trees unto the bramble. ] Or, Thistle, or teazle; which is not a tree but a shrub, prickly, bar...
Then said all the trees unto the bramble , &c. Or thorn, fitly representing Abimelech, the son of a concubine, and a person of small use and great cruelty. If in truth ye anoint me king If you...
ABIMELECH'SCONSPIRACY (vv. 1-6). Abimelech did not only forget his father's example, but deliberately chose a contrary path of proud self-pleasing. He wanted to rule over Israel and recognized t...
Jotham's Parable. B. C. 1209. 7 And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood i...
The bramble, or thorn ; a mean, and barren, and hurtful tree, fitly representing Abimelech, the son of a concubine, and a person of small use, and great cruelty.
“ Then all the trees said to the boxthorn, ‘You come and reign over us.' ” Now the trees were getting desperate. They are pictured as foolishly longing for a king over them, come what may. They w...
ABIMELECH MADE KING Judges 9:1-21 CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 9:1 . And Abimelech .] Some little time may have elapsed after Gideon’s death, so that the air was again filled with tendencies to i...
Judges 9:8-15 I. From the answer of the olive tree we learn that usefulness is better than honour. Usefulness, if it be of the higher kind, is attained through long growing and long striving. But...
Judges 9:4 . Baal-berith. Berith signifies a covenant, which those bad people had made with Baal. The Greeks had their ζευς ορκιος, their Jupiter, or their Baal, to which they made vows. Judges...
Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal. The election of the usurper to be king I. Contrasts in the history of God’s own people. After Gideon--Abimelech! II. The best of fathers may have the worst of...
EXPOSITION Judges 9:7 On the top of Mount Gerizim . Mount Gerizim rises on the south-west side of Samaria or Shechem as a sheer rock about 800 feet in height, facing Mount Ebal, which is s...
The Parable of Jotham
2 Kings 14:9
Bramble — Or, thorn, fitly representing Abimelech, the son of a concubine, and a person of small use, and great cruelty.