Judges 9:6

1 Kings 12:1; 1 Kings 12:20; 1 Kings 12:25; 2 Kings 12:20; 2 Samuel 5:9; Joshua 24:26

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Millo must have been a fortified place close to, but separate from, Shechem, and perhaps the same as the tower of Shechem mentioned in Judges 9:46...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of (d) Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that [was...
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

plain . oak. of the pillar. Genitive of Apposition. that is to say, the pillar made of oak. See Joshua 24:26 . Compare Genesis 28:18 ; Genesis...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that was in...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And all the house of Millo— Bertram, in his book de Repub. Jud. is of opinion, that Millo is not a proper name in this place; but that as by th...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that was...
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

Millo ] apparently a Shechemite family, or a town near Shechem ( Judges 9:20 ). The word has a different meaning in 1 Kings 9:15 ; 2 Kings 12:20 ....
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The house of Millo. — It cannot be determined whether Beth Millo is here a proper name, or whether Beth means the family or inhabitants of Millo....
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

See how the dreadful pursuit is marked. It is all written in blood. And to such a wretched state is Israel at this time, as a nation, reduced that in...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And all the men of Shechem gathered together ,.... Upon the return of Abimelech, after he with his banditti had committed the execrable murder of hi...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plain of the pillar that [was] in...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

All the men of Shechem That is, the great men, the chief magistrates of the city; and the house of Millo Either some eminent and potent family li...
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

Of Millo; of a place or person so called; some eminent and potent family living in Shechem, or near to it; either the family of Abimelech's mother,...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And all the men of Shechem assembled themselves together, and all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar tha...
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

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And all the men of Shechem, after this bloody deed, gathered together, and all the house of Millo, the name of the fort or citadel of Shechem, and...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

House of Millo — Some eminent and potent family living in Shechem, or near it. King — Over all Israel, Judges 9:22 , which was a strange presumpti...

⁶ And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the plainc of the pillar that was in Shechem.

Related Commentaries of Judges 9:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy 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

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 9:6