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Judges 9:51

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But there was a strong tower inside the city, and all the men, women, and leaders of the city fled there. They locked themselves in and went up to the roof of the tower.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut themselves in, and gat them up to the roof of the tower.

KJV

But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut it to them, and gat them up to the top of the tower.

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This verse in Judges 9

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

But there was a strong tower within the city,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Of this meteor, this ignis fatuus of a prince, that was not a protector but a plague to his country, we may say, as once was said of a great tyrant, that he came in like a fox, ruled like a lion, and died like a dog. "For the transgression of a land, such are the princes thereof." The Usurpation of Abimelech.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

The besieged city--the strong tower within--the men and women crowding its battlements--the fire applied to the doors, and even the huge fragments of stone dropping from the hands of one of the garrison on the heads of the assailants, are all well represented to the life--just as they are here described in the narrative of inspired truth [GOSS].

The words behind it

19 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.

  • וּמִגְדַּל־and a tower of

    umigdal-H4026 →48 times

  • עֹז֮strength

    ʾozH5797 →

  • הָיָ֣הit was

    hayahH1961 →3559 times

  • בְתוֹךְ־in [the] middle of

    vetokh-H8432 →418 times

  • הָעִיר֒the city

    hairH5892 →1090 times

  • וַיָּנֻ֨סוּand they fled

    vaiyanusuH5127 →159 times

  • שָׁ֜מָּהthere towards

    shamahH8033 →834 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָאֲנָשִׁ֣יםthe men

    haanashimH582 →566 times

  • וְהַנָּשִׁ֗יםand the women

    vehanashimH802 →781 times

  • וְכֹל֙and all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • בַּעֲלֵ֣י[the] citizens of

    baaleiH1167 →84 times

  • הָעִ֔ירthe city

    hairH5892 →1090 times

  • וַֽיִּסְגְּר֖וּand they shut [the] door

    vaiyisgeruH5462 →91 times

  • בַּעֲדָ֑םbehind them

    baadamH1157 →105 times

  • וַֽיַּעֲל֖וּand they went up

    vaiyaaluH5927 →890 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • גַּ֥ג[the] roof of

    gagH1406 →

  • הַמִּגְדָּֽל׃the tower

    hamigdalH4026 →48 times

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

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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 Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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