Judges 9:7
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.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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Genesis 37:6And he said unto them: 'Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:
Deuteronomy 27:12'These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are passed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin;
Psalms 18:40(18-41) Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me, and I did cut off them that hate me.
Proverbs 1:28Then will they call me, but I will not answer, they will seek me earnestly, but they shall not find me.
Proverbs 28:9He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
Isaiah 58:6Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the fetters of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
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 →