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Judges 9:49

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So each man also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. Then they piled the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire above them, killing everyone in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

KJV

And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

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This verse in Judges 9

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech,.... With their boughs on their shoulders, so that they were men that seemed to be as trees walking: and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; upon the men in it, or with them, the boughs of trees; it is probable the hold was made of wood, and so could the more easily be set on fire.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The officers in Christ's army should thus teach by their example, Phil. iv. He and they fetched each of them a bough from a wood not far off, laid all their boughs together under the wall of this tower, which it is probable was of wood, set fire to their boughs, and so burnt down their hold and all that were in it, who were either burnt or stifled with the smoke.

The words behind it

26 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.

  • וַיִּכְרְת֨וּand they cut off

    vaiyikhretuH3772 →288 times

  • גַם־also

    gam-H1571 →769 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָעָ֜םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • אִ֣ישׁeveryone

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • שׂוֹכֹ֗הown branch his

    sokhohH7754 →

  • וַיֵּ֨לְכ֜וּand they went

    vaiyelekhuH1980 →1546 times

  • אַחֲרֵ֤יafter

    ʾachareiH310 →715 times

  • אֲבִימֶ֙לֶךְ֙Abimelech

    ʾavimelekhH40 →66 times

  • וַיָּשִׂ֣ימוּand they put [them]

    vaiyasimuH7760 →584 times

  • עַֽל־over

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הַצְּרִ֔יחַthe underground chamber

    hatzeriachH6877 →4 times

  • וַיַּצִּ֧יתוּand they set on fire

    vaiyatzituH3341 →

  • עֲלֵיהֶ֛םover them

    ʾaleihemH5921 →5755 times

  • אֶֽת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַצְּרִ֖יחַthe underground chamber

    hatzeriachH6877 →4 times

  • בָּאֵ֑שׁwith <the> fire

    baeshH784 →378 times

  • וַיָּמֻ֜תוּand they died

    vaiyamutuH4191 →839 times

  • גַּ֣םalso

    gamH1571 →769 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • אַנְשֵׁ֧י[the] men of

    ʾansheiH582 →566 times

  • מִֽגְדַּל־[the] tower of

    migdal-H4026 →48 times

  • שְׁכֶ֛םShechem

    shekhemH7927 →63 times

  • כְּאֶ֖לֶףabout a thousand

    keelefH505 →505 times

  • אִ֥ישׁman

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • וְאִשָּֽׁה׃ פand woman

    veishahH802 →781 times

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

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

8 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

    James 3:16

    For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.

    it leads to

    • James 3:14

      But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Corinthians 3:3

      for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Corinthians 14:33

      For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace—as in all the churches of the saints.

    • 1 John 3:12

      Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.

    • Galatians 5:20

      idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,

  • Through

    Galatians 5:15

    But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.

    it leads to

    • Galatians 5:26

      Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying one another.

    • 2 Corinthians 11:20

      In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or exalts himself or strikes you in the face.

    • 2 Corinthians 12:20

      For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage,…

Where this verse is studied

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 John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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