THEOSISJudges 9:25Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And they set an ambush against him on the top of the mountains: and while they waited for his coming, they committed robberies, taking spoils of all that passed by: and it was told Abimelech.
וַיָּשִׂ֣ימוּ לוֹ֩ בַעֲלֵ֨י שְׁכֶ֜ם מְאָרְבִ֗ים עַ֚ל רָאשֵׁ֣י הֶהָרִ֔ים וַיִּגְזְל֗וּ אֵ֛ת כָּל־אֲשֶׁר־יַעֲבֹ֥ר עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם בַּדָּ֑רֶךְ וַיֻּגַּ֖ד לַאֲבִימֶֽלֶךְ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Josh 8:12And he had chosen five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Hai, on the west side of the same city:
- Josh 8:13But all the rest of the army went in battle array on the north side, so that the last of that multitude reached to the west side of the city. So Joshua went that night, and stood in the midst of the valley.
- Prov 1:11If they shall say: Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us hide snares for the innocent without cause:
- Prov 1:12Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit.
- Josh 8:4And commanded them, saying: Lay an ambush behind the city: and go not very far from it: and be ye all ready.