The tower — A strong place belonging to the city of Shechem, made for its defence without the city. Berith — Or, Baal — berith, Judges 9:4. Hither they fled out of the town belonging to it, fearing the same event with Shechem; and here they thought to be secure; partly by the strength of the place, partly by the religion of it, thinking that either their god would protect them there, or that Abimelech would spare them out of pity to that god.
Verse Judges 9:46. _A HOLD OF THE HOUSE OF THE GOD BERITH._] This must mean the _precincts_ of the temple, as we find there were a thousand men and women together in that place....
AN HOLD OF THE HOUSE OF THE GOD BERITH - As combining the advantages of a “sanctuary” (compare 1 Kings 2:28) and a fortress. The word rendered “hold” occurs elsewhere only in 1 Samuel 13:6, where it i...
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...
ABIMELECH DESTROYS SHECHEM. These verses seem to contain a second, independent account of the attack on Shechem, the sequel to Judges 9:22. Judges 9:43. Abimelech adopts the same tactics whereby his f...
BERITH. covenant. a sanctuary....
_the tower of Shechem_ MIGDAL-SHECHEM or TOWER OF SHECHEM, not the citadel of S., but an unwalled village in the neighbourhood, marked by a tower, cf. Judges 8:9; Judges 8:17. _the hold of the house o...
_Abimelech destroys Shechem and Migdal-Shechem_ After the Shechemites have suffered the severe defeat just described, and Abimelech has retired and dwelt at Arumah, it is incredible that, on the next...
_The Conspiracy of Gaal Judges 9:22-49_ 22 When Abimelech had reigned three years over Israel, 23 Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt tr...
_AND WHEN ALL THE MEN OF THE TOWER OF SHECHEM HEARD THAT, THEY ENTERED INTO AN HOLD OF THE HOUSE OF THE GOD BERITH._ They entered into an hold ... - literally, into the tower of the house of the god...
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...
THE TOWER OF SHECHEM] This appears to be a place outside Shechem (perhaps like Millo, Judges 9:20), whose inhabitants fear a fate similar to that of Shechem itself. HOLD] a rare word for 'hiding place...
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...
THE MEN OF THE TOWER OF SHECHEM. — Evidently the garrison of the house of Millo (Judges 9:6). ENTERED INTO AN HOLD. — The word for “hold” occurs in 1 Samuel 13:6 (“high place”). The LXX. render it “a...
וַֽ יִּשְׁמְע֔וּ כָּֽל ־בַּעֲלֵ֖י מִֽגְדַּל ־שְׁכֶ֑ם...
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...
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...
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...
And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard [that], they entered into an hold of the house of the god (p) Berith. (p) That is, of Baniberith, as (Judges 8:33)....
Tower. Serarius thinks it was the house of Mello, out of the city, ver. 6. (Menochius) --- It was the citadel, large enough to contain 1000 soldiers. They durst not, however, stop here to encounter Ab...
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...
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 WHEN ALL THE MEN OF THE TOWER OF SHECHEM HEARD THAT,.... That the city of Shechem was taken, the inhabitants of it slain, the city beaten down, and sowed with salt; by which it appears that this t...
And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard [that], they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith. Ver. 46. _Into an hold of the house of the god Berith._] This was as if a man shou...
_When the men of the tower heard_ Either a strong place belonging to the city of Shechem, and made for its defence without the city, or perhaps a town at some distance from Shechem, but probably inhab...
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...
THE END OF ABIMELECH...
And when all the men of the tower of Shechem, probably the same as Beth-Millo, the fortress of the city, HEARD THAT, THEY ENTERED INTO AN HOLD OF THE HOUSE OF THE GOD BERITH, thinking they would be sa...
30-49 Abimelech intended to punish the Schechemites for slighting him now, but God punished them for their serving him formerly in the murder of Gideon's sons. When God uses men as instruments in his...
THE TOWER OF SHECHEM; a strong place belonging to the city of Shechem, and made for its defence or security, but without the city. It is thought this was that Milo which was confederate with Shechem i...
Judges 9:46 men H1167 tower H4026 Shechem H7927 heard H8085 (H8799) entered H935 (H8799) stronghold H6877 temple...
‘ And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard about it, they entered into the hold of the house of El-berith.' Meanwhile the priests of Baal-berith and their attendants saw and learned what was...
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....
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 9:22 The Shechemites, who had made Abimelech their king (vv. Judges 9:1), eventually rebelled against him (vv....
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...
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,...
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...
1 Kings 8:26; 2 Kings 1:2; Isaiah 28:15; Isaiah 37:38; Judges 8:33;...