2 Kings 14:9
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...
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 hi...
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 tran...
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...
Unto the bramble. — Despairing of their best, they avail themselves of the unscrupulous ambition of their worst. The bramble — atad — is rather t...
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 all the trees unto the bramble ,.... Perceiving they could not prevail upon any of the useful and fruitful trees to take the government of...
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 tea...
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 gre...
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...
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...
“ 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 l...
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 all the trees unto the bramble, the thorn-bush, Come thou and reign over us.
Bramble — Or, thorn, fitly representing Abimelech, the son of a concubine, and a person of small use, and great cruelty.
14 Then said all the trees unto the bramble,e Come thou, and reign over us.