Verse 7
7. Mount Gerizim The steep mountain that overhangs Shechem on the south. See note and cuts at Joshua 8:30.
Lifted up his voice This discourse of Jotham seems to have been uttered to the same assembly that had gathered to make Abimelech king, and on the very day of the inauguration. Judges 9:19. “Several lofty precipices of Gerizim literally overhang the city, any one of which would answer his purpose. Nor would it be difficult to be heard, as every body knows who has listened to the public crier of villages on Lebanon. Indeed, the people in these mountainous countries are able, from long practice, so to pitch their voices as to be heard distinctly at distances almost incredible. They talk with persons across enormous wadies, and give the most minute directions, which are perfectly understood; and in doing this they seem to speak very little louder than their usual tone of conversation.” Thomson. On the acoustics of the Shechem valley see note on Joshua 8:33.
That God may hearken unto you He addresses the Shechemites as one having divine authority, and evidently under divine inspiration.
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