Judges 9:7
And when they told it to Iotham, he went and stoode in the top of mount Gerizim, and lift vp his voyce, and cryed, and sayd vnto them, Hearken vnto mee, you men of Shechem, that God may hearken vnto you.
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Genesis 37:6For he saide vnto them, Heare, I pray you, this dreame which I haue dreamed.
Deuteronomy 27:12These shall stand vpon mount Gerizzim, to blesse the people when ye shall passe ouer Iorden: Simeon, and Leui, and Iudah, and Issachar, and Ioseph, and Beniamin.
Psalms 18:40And thou hast giuen me the neckes of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.
Proverbs 1:28Then shall they call vpon me, but I will not answere: they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me,
Proverbs 28:9He that turneth away his eare from hearing the Law, euen his prayer shalbe abominable.
Isaiah 58:6Is not this the fasting, that I haue chosen, to loose the bandes of wickednes, to take off the heauie burdens, and to let the oppressed goe free, and that ye breake euery 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 →