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Judges 9:16

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Now if you have acted faithfully and honestly in making Abimelech king, if you have done well by Jerubbaal and his family, and if you have done to him as he deserves—

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Now therefore, if ye have dealt truly and uprightly, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands

KJV

Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands;

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Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

if you have acted faithfully and honestly

on Judges 9:16-18

Jotham drops the picture and names the men standing below him. His charge has three parts: Gideon "risked his life to deliver you," they killed his seventy sons "on a single stone," and they crowned the son of his maidservant "because he is your brother". The speech turns the narrative of verse 5 back on the town that did the killing.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Abimelech king,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Gideon had left many sons that were an honour to his name and family, and these they had barbarously murdered; one son he had left that was the blemish of his name and family, for he was the son of his maid-servant, whom all that had any respect to Gideon's honour would endeavour to conceal, yet him they made their king.

The words behind it

20 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְעַתָּ֗הand now

    veatahH6258 →433 times

  • אִם־if

    ʾim-H518 →1069 times

  • בֶּאֱמֶ֤תin faithfulness

    beemetH571 →127 times

  • וּבְתָמִים֙and in integrity

    uvetamimH8549 →

  • עֲשִׂיתֶ֔םyou have acted

    ʾasitemH6213 →2628 times

  • וַתַּמְלִ֖יכוּand you have made king

    vatamlikhuH4427 →348 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • אֲבִימֶ֑לֶךְAbimelech

    ʾavimelekhH40 →66 times

  • וְאִם־and if

    veim-H518 →1069 times

  • טוֹבָ֤הgood

    tovahH2896 →538 times

  • עֲשִׂיתֶם֙you have done

    ʾasitemH6213 →2628 times

  • עִם־with

    ʾim-H5973 →1050 times

  • יְרֻבַּ֣עַלJerub-Baal

    yerubaalH3378 →14 times

  • וְעִם־and with

    veim-H5973 →1050 times

  • בֵּית֔וֹhouse his

    beitoH1004 →2046 times

  • וְאִם־and if

    veim-H518 →1069 times

  • כִּגְמ֥וּלaccording to [the] dealing of

    kigmulH1576 →

  • יָדָ֖יוhands his

    yadavH3027 →1618 times

  • עֲשִׂ֥יתֶםyou have done

    ʾasitemH6213 →2628 times

  • לֽוֹ׃to <the> him

    lo

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

1 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Judges 8:35They did not show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) for all the good things he had done for Israel.4 works

The walk

3 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Judges 8:35

    They did not show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) for all the good things he had done for Israel.

    it leads to

    • Ecclesiastes 9:14–15

      There was a small city with few men. A mighty king came against it, surrounded it, and built large siege ramps against it.

    • Judges 9:16–19

      Now if you have acted faithfully and honestly in making Abimelech king, if you have done well by Jerubbaal and his family, and if you have done to him as he deserves—

    • Judges 9:5

      He went to his father’s house in Ophrah, and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.

About Judges

The Death of Gideon's Sons — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Death of Gideon's Sons — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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