Esther 4:16; Judges 7:1-25; Judges 8:4-10; Revelation 12:11; Romans 16:4; Romans 5:8
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...
Note the parenthesis of verses: Judges 9:17 ; Judges 9:18 . life . soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.
(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:
And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come...
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...
Adventured his life. — Literally, as in the margin, cast his life (LXX., εῤῥιψε), like the Latin projicere vitam (Lucan, Phars. iv. 516). Com...
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...
Nothing can be more evident, from the sequel of Abimelech's history, and which this chapter relates, than that there was a great deal of a prophetic...
For my father fought for you ,.... In the valley of Jezreel, and at Karkor, where with three hundred men he routed and destroyed an army of 135,000:...
Judges 9:17 (For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian: Ver. 17. And adventured his...
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...
Heb. cast away his soul or life far off, out of his reach or power to recover it, i.e. exposed himself to utmost hazard for your sakes.
“Now therefore, if you have dealt truly and uprightly, in that you have made Abimelech king, if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal, and his house, an...
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 9:4 . 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
(for my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian;
17 (For my father fought for you, and adventuredf his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian: