THEOSISJudges 9:7Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
This being told to Joatham, he went, and stood on the top of Mount Garizim: and lifting up his voice, he cried, and said: Hear me, ye men of Sichem, so may God hear you.
וַיַּגִּ֣דוּ לְיוֹתָ֗ם וַיֵּ֙לֶךְ֙ וַֽיַּעֲמֹד֙ בְּרֹ֣אשׁ הַר־גְּרִזִ֔ים וַיִּשָּׂ֥א קוֹל֖וֹ וַיִּקְרָ֑א וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לָהֶ֗ם שִׁמְע֤וּ אֵלַי֙ בַּעֲלֵ֣י שְׁכֶ֔ם וְיִשְׁמַ֥ע אֲלֵיכֶ֖ם אֱלֹהִֽים׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Deut 11:29And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, whither thou goest to dwell, thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Garizim, the curse upon mount Hebal:
- Deut 27:12These shall stand upon mount Garizim to bless the people, when you are passed the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Juda, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
- John 4:20Our fathers adored on this mountain: and you say that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore.
- Isa 1:15And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.
- Prov 28:9He that turneth away his ears from hearing the law, his prayer shall be an abomination.
- Prov 1:28Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning, and shall not find me:
- Prov 1:29Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of the Lord,
- Prov 21:13He that stoppeth his ear against the cry of the poor, shall also cry himself, and shall not be heard.