Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Judges 9:3
Brethren — That is, kinsmen. He is our brother — They were easily persuaded to believe what served their own interest.
Brethren — That is, kinsmen. He is our brother — They were easily persuaded to believe what served their own interest.
Verse Judges 9:3. _HE_ IS _OUR BROTHER._] We shall be raised to places of trust under him, and our city will be the capital of the kingdom....
The Ephraimite pride revolted from Abi-ezrite rulers, and inclined them to one who was a Shechemite by birth. (Compare the same spirit in the time of David and Rehoboam, 2 Samuel 20:1; 1 Kings 12:16.)...
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...
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 interest, but the glimpse which it affords of the relatio...
_Abimelech Made King Judges 9:1-6_ And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, s...
_AND HIS MOTHER'S BRETHREN SPAKE OF HIM IN THE EARS OF ALL THE MEN OF SHECHEM ALL THESE WORDS: AND THEIR HEARTS INCLINED TO FOLLOW ABIMELECH; FOR THEY SAID, HE IS OUR BROTHER._ No JFB commentary on t...
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...
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...
וַ יְדַבְּר֨וּ אֲחֵֽי ־אִמֹּ֜ו עָלָ֗יו בְּ אָ
ABIMELECH AND JOTHAM Judges 8:29; Judges 9:1 THE history we are tracing moves from man to man; the personal influence of the hero is everything while it lasts and confusion follows on his death. Gide...
“THROUGH SLAUGHTER TO A THRONE” Judges 8:29; Judges 9:1 The Children of Israel were guilty of great fickleness and instability. They soon relapsed into Baal worship and forgot to show kindness to the...
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...
Among Gideon's 70 sons was Abimelech who was born to him of a concubine from Shechem. He got the people of that city to pay him 70 shekels of silver and used it to enlist the help of some worthless an...
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 sin; what can the end be but vanity and vexation of...
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...
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...
AND HIS MOTHER'S BRETHREN SPAKE OF HIM IN THE EARS OF THE MEN OF SHECHEM ALL THESE WORDS,.... Got them together in some certain place, and laid before them all that Abimelech had suggested to them, an...
And his mother's brethren spake of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He [is] our brother. Ver. 3. And his mother...
_Abimelech went to Shechem unto his mother's brethren_ That is, her relations; _and communed with them_ To try if he could engage them to favour and aid the design he had conceived to usurp the govern...
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...
And his mother's brethren, acting upon the suggestion of Abimelech, SPAKE OF HIM IN THE EARS OF ALL THE MEN OF SHECHEM ALL THESE WORDS; AND THEIR HEARTS, those of all the Shechemites, INCLINED TO FOLL...
ABIMELECH BECOMES KING...
ABIMELECH'SCONSPIRACY (vv. 1-6). Abimelech did not only forget his father's example, but deliberately chose a contrary path of proud self-pleasing. He wanted to rule over Israel and recognized that...
TO FOLLOW: _ Heb._ after...
1-6 The men of Shechem chose Abimelech king. God was not consulted whether they should have any king, much less who it should be. If parents could see what their children would do, and what they are t...
HIS MOTHER'S BRETHREN, i.e. kinsmen, as that word is oft used, as GENESIS 14:16, GENESIS 29:12. HE IS OUR BROTHER; they were easily persuaded to believe and follow what served their own interest....
Judges 9:3 mothers H517 brothers H251 spoke H1696 (H8762) words H1697 hearing H241 men H1167 Shechem H7927 heart...
‘ And his mother's brothers spoke of him in the ears of the chief men of Shechem all these words, and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, he is our brother.' His uncles pressed h...
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...
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....
_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! II. The best of fathers may have the worst of sons...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 9:1 Abimelech rose to power by ruthlessly killing his own brothers, with the help of the Shechemites. He was then “made king” at Shechem (v. Judges 9:6). Jerubbaal
_ABIMELECH MADE KING_ Judges 9:1 CRITICAL NOTES.— JUDGES 9:1. AND ABIMELECH.] Some little time may have elapsed after Gideon’s death, so that the air was again filled with tendencies to idolatry. Be...
EXPOSITION JUDGES 9:1 THE SON OF JERUBBAAL. Throughout this chapter Gideon is spoken of by the name of Jerubbaal. There must be some cause for this. The simplest and most probable cause is that this...
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...
Genesis 29:15; Proverbs 1:11; Psalms 10:3...