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Judges 9:35

in Judges 9

Now Gaal son of Ebed went out and stood at the entrance of the city gate just as Abimelech and his men came out from their hiding places.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that were with him, from the ambushment.

KJV

And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that were with him, from lying in wait.

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This verse in Judges 9

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

lay in wait against Shechem in four companies

on Judges 9:34-36

Gaal stands "at the entrance of the city gate," where a town's leaders sat to judge, and sees men coming off the hills. Zebul answers, "The shadows of the mountains look like men to you," holding him there while the companies close in. In the Hebrew, shadows is the thornbush's word for its shade at verse 15, and the man the town trusted is told that armed men are shadows.

This site's exposition

stood at the entrance of the city gate

Adam Clarke supposes Gaal had some warning of the plan, which would explain why he stands watching at the gate. The verse times his arrival to the moment Abimelech's men leave their hiding places. The watcher and the ambush arrive together.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And Gaul the son or Ebed went out,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

The consequence was that he allowed himself to be drawn into an ambush, was defeated, the city of Shechem destroyed and strewn with salt. The people took refuge in the stronghold, which was set on fire, and all in it perished.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Stood in the entering of the gate - Having probably got some intimation of the designs of Zebul and Abimelech.

The words behind it

15 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.

  • וַיֵּצֵא֙and he went out

    vaiyetze'H3318 →1067 times

  • גַּ֣עַלGaal

    gaalH1603 →9 times

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H1121 →4930 times

  • עֶ֔בֶדEbed

    ʾevedH5651 →6 times

  • וַיַּעֲמֹ֕דand he stood

    vaiyaamodH5975 →521 times

  • פֶּ֖תַח[the] entrance of

    petachH6607 →164 times

  • שַׁ֣עַר[the] gate of

    shaarH8179 →374 times

  • הָעִ֑ירthe city

    hairH5892 →1090 times

  • וַיָּ֧קָםand he arose

    vaiyakomH6965 →628 times

  • אֲבִימֶ֛לֶךְAbimelech

    ʾavimelekhH40 →66 times

  • וְהָעָ֥םand the people

    vehaamH5971 →1873 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • אִתּ֖וֹ[was] with him

    ʾitoH854 →929 times

  • מִן־from

    min-H4480 →1188 times

  • הַמַּאְרָֽב׃the ambush

    hama'ravH3993 →

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

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
Judges: the study guide →Read Judges 9 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth.

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