Judges 9:4

1 Samuel 22:2; 2 Chronicles 13:7; Acts 17:5; Job 30:8; Judges 11:3; Judges 8:33; Judges 9:46-49; Proverbs 12:11

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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Judges 9. The Kingship and Fall of Abimelech. The story of Gideon's half-Canaanite son does not equal the finest parts of the book in dramatic inte...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

light . rash. persons. Hebrew. 'enosh. App-14.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which follo...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which fol...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Vain ] worthless: hired mercenaries of no character.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Pieces. — Rather, shekels, which is the word normally understood in similar phrases ( Judges 8:26 ). “Neither the citizens of Shechem nor the ign...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

ABIMELECH AND JOTHAM Judges 8:29-35 ; Judges 9:1-57 THE history we are tracing moves from man to man; the personal influence of the hero is ev...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Through Slaughter to a Throne” Judges 8:29-35 ; Judges 9:1-6 The Children of Israel were guilty of great fickleness and instability. They soo...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The closing statement of the previous chapter constitutes the introduction to this. The words, "As soon as Gideon was dead" and the declaration that...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Take notice, how the scheme was carried on. It began in man ' s ambition, unauthorized by God, and was kept up by bribes from an idol. Thus laid in s...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baalbirith ,.... The temple of their idol; of this name Judges 8:33 , out of the mo...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And they gave him threescore and ten [pieces] of silver out of the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which follo...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

They gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver To bear the charges which he would be put to in making good his pretensions. It is not said what...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

ABIMELECH'SCONSPIRACY (vv. 1-6). Abimelech did not only forget his father's example, but deliberately chose a contrary path of proud self-pleasi...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Usurpation of Abimelech. B. C. 1209. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Threescore and ten, agreeably to the number of his enemies, Gideon's seventy sons. Pieces of silver; not shekels, as some fancy, which were too s...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberith, with which Abimelech hired vain and light persons who followed him.'...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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,...
The Biblical Illustrator

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...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Judges 9:1 The son of Jerubbaal . Throughout this chapter Gideon is spoken of by the name of Jerubbaal. There must be some caus...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Abimelech Becomes King
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver (barely $45) out of the house of Baal-berith, for as idolaters they were opposed to Jerubbaal...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Pieces of silver — Not shekels, which were too small a sum for this purpose; but far larger pieces, the exact worth whereof it is not possible for...

⁴ And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.

Related Commentaries of Judges 9:4

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Judges 9:4