Judges 9:7
and they declare [it] to Jotham, and he goes and stands on the top of Mount Gerizim, and lifts up his voice, and calls, and says to them, “Listen to me, O masters of Shechem, and God listens to you:
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In Context
8The trees have diligently gone to anoint a king over them, and they say to the olive, Reign over us.
Cross References
Genesis 37:6And he says to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:
Deuteronomy 27:12“These stand on Mount Gerizzim to bless the people, in your passing over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin.
Psalms 18:40As for my enemies—You have given to me the neck, || As for those hating me—I cut them off.
Proverbs 1:28Then they call me, and I do not answer, || They seek me earnestly, and do not find me.
Proverbs 28:9Whoever is turning his ear from hearing the Law, || Even his prayer [is] an abomination.
Isaiah 58:6Is this not the fast that I chose—To loose the bands of wickedness, || To shake off the burdens of the yoke, || And to send out the oppressed free, || And draw off 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 →