Judges 9:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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Now therefore. — Here follows the epimuthion. or application of the fable. Judges 9:16-18 are the protasis of the sentence, which is a long and parenthetic series of premisses; the conclusion, or apodosis, follows in Judges 9:19.

If ye have done truly and sincerely. — A bitterly ironical supposition with a side glance at the phrase used by the bramble (see Judges 9:15).

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Judges 9:16

16 Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands;