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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 9:19-20

“If you then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice all of you in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you. But if not let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the chief men of Shechem and the house of Millo, and let fire come out from the chief men of Shechem and the house of Millo and devour Abimelech.” Finally he delivered his curse. Let it be according to their deserts. If they have done rightly let them fully enjoy the fruits of what... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 9:7-21

Judges 9:7-Ecclesiastes : . 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 point of his fable is easily caught. His father and his brothers were the fruitful trees— olive, fig-tree and vine— who declined to rule over the other trees; his half-brother is the bramble who has accepted the kingship, but who will presently set on fire the cedars of Lebanon. If the Shechemites have acted in good faith... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Judges 9:1-21

ABIMELECH MADE KINGJudges 9:1-21CRITICAL 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. Before certain acts can be done, the times must be ripe for them. Abi signifies “my father,” Melech “a king.” The name was probably given by the mother, who was probably a woman of energetic or aspiring spirit, if it is her character that we see reflected in her eon. Probably, being an only son, she... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Judges 9:1-57

Chapter 9Now 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 probably a concubine in every city and so in Shechem this concubine who had born this fellow Abimelech.Abimelech came to the men of Shechem and he said, "Look, is it better that one man rule over you or seventy that rule over you? One man who is your brother who comes right of Shechem, who... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Judges 9:1-57

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 . Slew threescore and ten upon one stone, as an offering to his God. It is a credit to the Hebrew religion, that Abimelech was an apostate. Judges 9:8 . The trees went forth to anoint a king. This parable seems to have been divinely inspired. The figures and all the drapery of diction,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Judges 9:1-22

Judges 9:1-22Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal.The election of the usurper to be kingI. Contrasts in the history of God’s own people. After Gideon--Abimelech!II. The best of fathers may have the worst of sons.III. useful purposes are served in recording a wicked man’s life in the book of God.1. The record is given as a curse, and not as a blessing.2. Such a record illustrates the truth of God’s testimony respecting human character.3. It shows by practical example the frightfully evil nature of sin... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Judges 9:19

Jdg 9:19 If ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, [then] rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you: Ver. 19. Then rejoice you in Abimelech. ] As I hardly think you ever will; for it is an irony: Mutuum oblectemini, May there be all good correspondency. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Judges 9:19

rejoice: Isaiah 8:6, Philippians 3:3, James 4:16 Reciprocal: Exodus 21:8 - seeing Leviticus 5:4 - to do evil Ecclesiastes 4:16 - they also Song of Solomon 2:3 - I sat Amos 1:4 - I will Amos 6:13 - which read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Judges 9:7-21

JOTHAM’S PARABLE, Judges 9:7-21. The following beautiful apologue, commonly called the parable of Jotham, is rather a fable than a parable. The parable moves in the higher realm of spiritual thought. Its imagery is always taken from real life, and its narrative that which may have been objectively true, and often has its parallel in the history of man. See note, Matthew 13:3. The fable is based on imaginary actions of irrational creatures or inanimate things, and can therefore never be true... read more