the vine. Israel's spiritual privileges (Isaiah 5.John 15).
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...
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 poin...
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 hi...
Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.
But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?...
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...
Unto the vine. — We might have felt surprise that the vine was not the first choice, but the low-growing, trellised vine, which needs support for i...
the Bramble King Judges 9:7-21 Men must have leadership. The reason lies deep in human nature. The French Revolutionaries destroyed the royal f...
The closing statement of the previous chapter constitutes the introduction to this. The words, "As soon as Gideon was dead" and the declaration that...
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 instruct...
Then said the trees unto the vine ,.... Another emblem of good and useful men; and it may be observed, that Jotham takes no notice of any trees but...
Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, [and] reign over us. Ver. 12. Then said the trees unto the vine. ] So fond they were of a king, hows...
ABIMELECH'SCONSPIRACY (vv. 1-6). Abimelech did not only forget his father's example, but deliberately chose a contrary path of proud self-pleasi...
Jotham's Parable. B. C. 1209. 7 And...
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“Then the trees said to the vine, ‘You come and reign over us.' And the vine said to them, ‘Should I leave my wine, which cheers God and man, and go...
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...
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 att...
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,...
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...
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...
The Parable of Jotham
Then said the trees unto the vine, a symbol of government, as that which gives peace and comfort, Come thou and reign over us.
12 Then said the trees unto the vine, Come thou, and reign over us.