Judges 9:17

Don't forget how my father fought for you and risked his own life to save you from the Midianites!

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In The King James Version

(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:

In Context

16Have you acted sincerely and honestly by making Abimelech your king? Have you acted honorably towards Jerub-baal and his family? Have you respected him for all that he accomplished?

18But you have rebelled against my father's family today. You have killed his seventy sons on one stone and have made Abimelech, the son of his slave woman, king over the leaders of Shechem simply because he's related to you.

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Cross References

Judges 8:4Then Gideon crossed the Jordan with his three hundred men. Even though they were exhausted they continued the chase.

Esther 4:16“Have all the Jews in Susa meet together and fast for me. Don't eat or drink anything for three days and nights. I and my girls will also fast. After that, I will go to the king, even though it's against the law, and if I die, I die.”

Romans 16:4who risked their lives for me. It's not just me who is very thankful for them, but all the churches of the foreigners too.

Matthew Henry on Judges 9:8-22

Jotham's Parable. ( b. c. 1209.) 7 And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you. 8 The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us. 9 But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees? 10 And the trees said… Read the whole commentary →

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