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WENT HARD UNTO THE DOOR ... - i. e. went close to the door. An act of
manifest danger, seeing the roof was covered with persons who would be
likely to throw down missiles of all sorts on the heads of...
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CHAPTER 9 ABIMELECH THE KING AND HIS WICKEDNESS
_ 1. The murder of Gideon's sons (Judges 9:1)_
2. Jotham's parable (Judges 9:7)
3. Scenes of strife and destruction of Shechem (Judges 9:22)
4. Abim...
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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 his skull. That he might not be said to have died by a...
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HARD. close....
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_Death of Abimelech Judges 9:50-57_
50 Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and
took it.
51 But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all
the men and women,...
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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 here regarded as
oppressors. The story, however, thr...
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LIFE WITHOUT LAW
JUDGES
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 9
V1 Abimelech, Jerubbaal’s son, went to his mother’s brothers in
Shechem. He spoke to them and he spoke to all his mother’s *tribe.
V2 ‘Ask all the...
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WENT HARD UNTO THE DOOR. — Hard, _i.e.,_ close. Like other bad men,
Abimelech was not lacking in physical courage. He had all his
father’s impetuous energy. The peril of such rashness served the
Israe...
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וַ יָּבֹ֤א אֲבִימֶ֨לֶךְ֙ עַד ־הַ
מִּגְדָּ֔ל ו
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THE BURNING OF THE BRAMBLE
Judges 9:41
Terrible deeds like these give tokens of the power of the god of this
world, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.
Alas, similar atrociti...
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The closing statement of the previous chapter constitutes the
introduction to this. The words, "As soon as Gideon was dead" and the
declaration that then the people returned to evil courses reveal,
fi...
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Abimelech ruled over Israel for three years and, though he was wicked,
is considered to be the next judge. After that time, God caused a
spirit of ill will to arise between the men of Shechem and Abim...
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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 later, overtake the sinner. The Shechemites are first...
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My object being no more than a sketch, as most of you know, I desire
to say but a few words on such of the Chapter s as bear a similar
character to that which has been already pointed out in the early...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9, 10, 11, AND 12.
After Gideon's death we see the results of this distance from God in
the internal struggles which took place between the children of
Israel...
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AND ABIMELECH CAME UNTO THE TOWER,.... With his army to besiege it:
AND FOUGHT AGAINST IT; using all the methods he could to oblige those
in it to surrender:
AND WENT HARD UNTO THE DOOR OF THE TOWER...
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And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went
hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
Ver. 52. _And went hard unto the door._] This was not soldier-like,
whose rule...
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1 Abimelech by conspiracie with the Shechemites, and murder of his
brethren, is made King.
7 Iotham by a parable rebuketh them and foretelleth their ruine.
22 Gaal conspireth with the Shechemites ag...
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And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went
hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire, thereby stepping
closely to the wall....
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THE END OF ABIMELECH...
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50-57 The Shechemites were ruined by Abimelech; now he is reckoned
with, who was their leader in villany. Evil pursues sinners, and
sometimes overtakes them, when not only at ease, but triumphant.
Th...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Judges 9:52 Abimelech H40 came H935 (H8799) tower H4026 fought H3898
(H8735) near H5066 (H8799) door...
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‘ And Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and went
hard to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.'
Whatever Abimelech was he was not a coward and he took a full part in
the attack...
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CONTENTS: Conspiracy of Abimelech.
CHARACTERS: God, Abimelech, Jerubbaal, Jocham, Gaal, Zebul.
CONCLUSION: Evil pursues sinners and sometimes overtakes them when
they are apparently triumphant. The...
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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, or their Baal, to which they made vows.
Judges 9:5....
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JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 9:22 The Shechemites, who had made Abimelech
their king (vv. Judges 9:1), eventually rebelled against him (vv....
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CHAPTER 9
_ABIMELECH’S TRAGIC BUT BRIEF HISTORY_
(Judges 9:22.)
CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 9:22. HAD REIGNED] ruled by _force_ rather
than by _natural right_, implying a hard, as opposed to a mild, rul...
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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,...
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Now here's what happened. After the death of Gideon, this Abimelech
who was the son of his concubine in Shechem. Now you know, they used
to say of the sailors "a girl in every port." Well, Gideon had...
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2 Kings 14:10; 2 Kings 15:16; Judges 9:48; Judges 9:49...