Judges 9:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Adventured his life. — Literally, as in the margin, cast his life (LXX., εῤῥιψε), like the Latin projicere vitam (Lucan, Phars. iv. 516). Comp. the reading paraboleusamenos in Philippians 2:30 and Isaiah 53:12 : “He hath poured out his soul unto death.”

Judges 9:17

17 (For my father fought for you, and adventuredf his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian: