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The men of Thebez (modern Tubas) had, doubtless, joined the
Shechemites in their rebellion against Abimelech....
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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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UNTO THEBEZ— This was a city supposed to have revolted from
Abimelech, in the neighbourhood of Shechem, in the tribe of Ephraim,
situated, according to Eusebius and St. Jerome, at thirteen miles
dista...
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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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_THEN WENT ABIMELECH TO THEBEZ, AND ENCAMPED AGAINST THEBEZ, AND TOOK
IT._
Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against ... it - now
Tobas, not far from Shechem....
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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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THEBEZ. — One of the cities in the league of “Baal of the
Covenant,” perhaps, _Tubas,_ ten miles north-east of Shechem, on a
mound among the hills....
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וַ יֵּ֥לֶךְ אֲבִימֶ֖לֶךְ אֶל ־תֵּבֵ֑ץ
וַ יִּ֥חַן בְּ תֵבֵ֖ץ וַֽ
יִּלְכְּדָֽהּ׃...
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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 atrocit...
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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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_Thebes, about 13 miles from Sichem, towards Scythopolis. (Eusebius)
--- Besieged. Hebrew, &c., "took," as the sequel shews, (ver. 52,)
since Abimelech was killed, as he was attacking the tower or cit...
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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
Israe...
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THEN WENT ABIMELECH TO THEBEZ,.... Which, according to Ben Gersom, had
rebelled against him; it was near to Shechem. Adrichomius says p, the
ruins, where he thinks stood the city of Thebez, were but o...
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Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took
it.
Ver. 50. _Then went Abimelech to Thebez._] Elijah the Tishbite's
country, and more famous for him than Thebes, in Greece, was...
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_Zalmon_ A place so called from its shadiness. _Thebez_ Another town
near Shechem; and, as it seems, within its territory. _Thither fled
all the men and women_ All that were not slain in the taking of...
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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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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.
Tho...
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THEBEZ; another town near to Shechem; and, as it seems, within its
territory....
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Judges 9:50 Abimelech H40 went H3212 (H8799) Thebez H8405 encamped
H2583 (H8799) Thebez H8405 took H3920 (H8799)
Thebez - According to Eusebius, thirteen miles from Shechem, towards
Scythopolis. Judg...
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‘ Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and
took it.'
The insurrection in Shechem had spread. Abimelech had not been
reigning as a prince of Israel long and already there was ge...
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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.
Judges 9:26). Abimelech was able to stop the revolt, and he burned...
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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, ru...
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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, Judges 9:12, Judges 9:14, and
elsewhere, where the reign of a king is desi...
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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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Judges 9:50...
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Thebez — Another town near to Shechem; and, as it seems, within its
territory....