2 Kings 14:9; Daniel 4:10-18; Ezekiel 17:3-10; Judges 8:22; Judges 8:23
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...
(e) The trees went forth [on a time] to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us. (e) By this parable he decla...
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 trees. This is pare allegory (App-6). The interpretation is local and historical. The application is dispensational. went forth. Verb, d...
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...
The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us. The trees went forth on a time -...
The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king, &c.— We have here the most ancient example of the use of parables and apologues, to set forth...
The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us. The trees went forth - lite...
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...
The trees went forth. — As in this chapter we have the first Israelite “king” and the first massacre of brethren, so here we have the first fable....
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...
KING BRAMBLE ‘The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.’ Judges 9:8...
The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them ,.... This is an apologue or fable, and a very fine and beautiful one; it is fitly express...
The trees went forth [on a time] to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us. Ver. 8. The trees went forth o...
The trees went forth on a time This is the first instance that we have of this manner of speaking by parables. But we find it in great use afterwar...
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...
A parabolical discourse, usual among the ancients, especially in the eastern parts; wherein, under the names of trees, men are represented. To anoin...
“The trees went forth at one time to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, ‘You reign over us.' But the olive tree said to them,...
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
The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them, no special reason being given for this desire; and they said unto the olive-tree, Reign t...
The trees, &c. — A parabolical discourse, usual among the ancients, especially in the eastern parts. To anoint — To make a king, which was done...
8 The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.