2 Samuel 11:21; 2 Samuel 20:21; Jeremiah 49:20; Jeremiah 50:45; Job 31:3; Judges 9:15; Judges 9:20
The phrase “all” to is now obsolete, and means “quite,” “entirely,” as in Chaucer, Spenser, and Milton.
The Death of Abimelech. He went on burning and destroying till from the tower of Thebez (p. 30) a woman threw a mill-stone which crashed through hi...
a piece of a . an upper. all to brake . altogether brake. (Obsolete.)
And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull. A piece of a millstone - פלח רכב pelach recheb, a...
A certain woman cast a piece of a millstone, &c.— A woman threw down from the top of a tower a large stone upon Abimelech's head, and all to b...
And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull. A certain woman cast a ... millstone upon...
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...
A piece of a millstone] RV 'an upper millstone,' detachable from the lower; such stones weighed about 27 pounds. The mill is of course worked by ha...
A piece of a millstone. — The word for millstone is receb, literally, runner, i.e., the upper millstone, or lapis vector, which is whirled ro...
the Burning of the Bramble Judges 9:41-57 Terrible deeds like these give tokens of the power of the god of this world, the spirit that now work...
The closing statement of the previous chapter constitutes the introduction to this. The words, "As soon as Gideon was dead" and the declaration that...
One general observation runs through the whole of this history, and meets the Reader in every part of it: namely, that God's judgments, sooner or lat...
And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone ,.... Of the upper millstone, as the word signifies, which is observed by Jarchi and other Jewish co...
And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull. Ver. 53. And a certain woman. ] Women have some...
A woman cast a piece of a millstone Such great stones, no doubt, they carried up with them, whereby they might defend themselves, or offend those w...
The Death of Abimelech. B. C. 1206. ...
Such great stones no doubt they carried up with them, whereby they might defend themselves, or offend those who assaulted them. Here the justice of G...
‘ And a certain woman cast an upper-millstone on Abimelech's head and broke his skull.' An unknown woman on the tower, seeing Abimelech not far b...
CHAPTER 9 ABIMELECH’S TRAGIC BUT BRIEF HISTORY ( Judges 9:22-57 .) CRITICAL NOTES.— Judges 9:22 . Had reigned ] ruled by force rather than b...
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,...
EXPOSITION Judges 9:22 Had reigned . The Hebrew word here used is quite a different one from that in Judges 9:8 , Judges 9:10 , Judges...
The End of Abimelech
And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone, the upper stone, known as the runner, upon Abimelech's head, and all to (wholly) brake his skull,...
Mill — stone — Such great stones no doubt they carried up with them, whereby they might defend themselves, or offend those who assaulted them. Here...
53 And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.