THEOSISJudges 9:18Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And you are now risen up against my father's house, and have killed his sons, seventy men, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his handmaid, king over the inhabitants of Sichem, because he is your brother:
וְאַתֶּ֞ם קַמְתֶּ֨ם עַל־בֵּ֤ית אָבִי֙ הַיּ֔וֹם וַתַּהַרְג֧וּ אֶת־בָּנָ֛יו שִׁבְעִ֥ים אִ֖ישׁ עַל־אֶ֣בֶן אֶחָ֑ת וַתַּמְלִ֜יכוּ אֶת־אֲבִימֶ֤לֶךְ בֶּן־אֲמָתוֹ֙ עַל־בַּעֲלֵ֣י שְׁכֶ֔ם כִּ֥י אֲחִיכֶ֖ם הֽוּא׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Judg 9:5And he came to his father's house in Ephra, and slew his brethren, the sons of Jerobaal, seventy men, upon one stone: and there remained only Joatham, the youngest son of Jerobaal, who was hidden.
- Judg 9:6And all the men of Sichem were gathered together, and all the families of the city of Mello: and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak that stood in Sichem.
- Judg 9:14And all the trees said to the bramble: Come thou and reign over us.
- Ps 109 (108):4
- Judg 8:30And he had seventy sons, who came out of his thigh, for he had many wives.
- Judg 8:31And his concubine, that he had in Sichem, bore him a son, whose name was Abimelech.
- Judg 8:35Neither did they shew mercy to the house of Jerobaal Gedeon, according to all the good things he had done to Israel.