Judges 9:7
This being told to Joatham, he went and stood on the top of mount Garizim: and lifting up his voice, he cried, and said: Hear me, ye men of Sichem, so may God hear you.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
8The trees went to anoint a king over them: and they said to the olive tree: Reign thou over us.
Cross References
Genesis 37:6And he said to them: Hear my dream which I dreamed.
Deuteronomy 27:12These shall stand upon mount Garizim to bless the people, when you are passed the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Juda, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
Psalms 18:40And thou hast girded me with strength unto battle; and hast subdued under me them that rose up against me.
Proverbs 1:28Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning and shall not find me:
Proverbs 28:9He that turneth away his ears from hearing the law, his prayer shall be as abomination.
Isaiah 58:6Is not this rather the fast that I have chosen? loose the bands of wickedness, undo the bundles that oppress, let them that are broken go free, and break asunder every burden.
Matthew Henry on Judges 9:2-7
The Usurpation of Abimelech. ( b. c. 1209.) 1 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, saying, 2 Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh. 3 And his mother's brethren spake of him in… Read the whole commentary →