“ Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it. ”
The men of Thebez (modern Tubas) had, doubtless, joined the Shechemites in their rebellion against Abimelech.
The Death of Abimelech. He went on burning and destroying till from the tower of Thebez (p. 30) a woman threw a mill-stone which crashed through his skull. That he might not be said to have died by...
Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.
Unto Thebez— This was a city supposed to have revolted from Abimelech, in the neighbourhood of Shechem, in the tribe of Ephraim, situated, according to Eusebius and St. Jerome, at thirteen miles di...
Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it. Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against ... it - now Tobas, not far from Shechem.
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,...
Thebez. — One of the cities in the league of “Baal of the Covenant,” perhaps, Tubas, ten miles north-east of Shechem, on a mound among the hills.
the Burning of the Bramble Judges 9:41-57 Terrible deeds like these give tokens of the power of the god of this world, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. Alas, similar...
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...
One general observation runs through the whole of this history, and meets the Reader in every part of it: namely, that God's judgments, sooner or later, overtake the sinner. The Shechemites are first...
Then went Abimelech to Thebez ,.... Which, according to Ben Gersom, had rebelled against him; it was near to Shechem. Adrichomius says p, the ruins, where he thinks stood the city of Thebez, were bu...
Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it. Ver. 50. Then went Abimelech to Thebez. ] Elijah the Tishbite's country, and more famous for him than Thebes, in Greece, wa...
Zalmon A place so called from its shadiness. Thebez Another town near Shechem; and, as it seems, within its territory. Thither fled all the men and women All that were not slain in the taking o...
The Death of Abimelech. B. C. 1206. 50 Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped aga...
Thebez; another town near to Shechem; and, as it seems, within its territory.
‘ Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.' The insurrection in Shechem had spread. Abimelech had not been reigning as a prince of Israel long and already there wa...
CHAPTER 9 ABIMELECH’S TRAGIC BUT BRIEF HISTORY ( Judges 9:22-57 .) CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 9:22 . Had reigned ] ruled by force rather than by natural right , implying a hard, as opposed to...
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...
EXPOSITION Judges 9:22 Had reigned . The Hebrew word here used is quite a different one from that in Judges 9:8 , Judges 9:10 , Judges 9:12 , Judges 9:14 , and elsewhere, where the rei...
The End of Abimelech
Judges 9:50
Thebez — Another town near to Shechem; and, as it seems, within its territory.