Judges 9:2 BSB — MannaFest

Judges 9:2

“Please ask all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you, or just one man?’ Remember that I am your own flesh and blood.”

BSB

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ASV

Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are threescore and ten persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.

KJV

Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Whether is better for you, either that all the sons - This was a powerful argument: Whether will you have seventy tyrants or only one? For, as he had no right to the government, and God alone was king at that time in Israel; so he must support his usurped rule by whatever means were most likely to effect it: a usurped government is generally supported by oppression and the sword.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, . . . or that one reign over you--a false insinuation, artfully contrived to stir up jealousy and alarm. Gideon had rejected, with abhorrence, the proposal to make himself or any of his family king, and there is no evidence that any of his other sons coveted the title.

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Original language & word study

26 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
דַּבְּרוּ־	da.be.ru-	speak	H1696 →
נָ֞א	na'	please	H4994 →
בְּאָזְנֵ֨י	be.'a.ze.Nei	in [the] ears of	H241 →
כָל־	khol-	all	H3605 →
בַּעֲלֵ֣י	ba.'a.Lei	[the] citizens of	H1167 →
שְׁכֶם֮	she.Khem	Shechem	H7927 →
מַה־	mah-	what?	H4100 →
טּ֣וֹב	Tov	[is] good	H2896 →
לָכֶם֒	la.Khem	for <the> you
הַמְשֹׁ֨ל	ham.Shol	¿ to rule	H4910 →
בָּכֶ֜ם	ba.Khem	over <the> you
שִׁבְעִ֣ים	shiv.'Im	seventy	H7657 →
אִ֗ישׁ	'Ish	man	H376 →
כֹּ֚ל	kol	all	H3605 →
בְּנֵ֣י	be.Nei	[the] sons of	H1121 →
יְרֻבַּ֔עַל	ye.ru.Ba.'al	Jerub-Baal	H3378 →
אִם־	'im-	or?	H518 →
מְשֹׁ֥ל	me.Shol	to rule	H4910 →
בָּכֶ֖ם	ba.Khem	over <the> you
אִ֣ישׁ	'ish	a man	H376 →
אֶחָ֑ד	'e.Chad	one	H259 →
וּזְכַרְתֶּ֕ם	u.ze.khar.Tem	and you will remember	H2142 →
כִּֽי־	ki-	that	H3588 →
עַצְמֵכֶם	'atz.me.Khem	[am] bone your	H6106 →
וּבְשַׂרְכֶ֖ם	u.ve.sar.Khem	and flesh your	H1320 →
אָנִֽי׃	'a.Ni	I	H589 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Hebrews 2:14
Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,
leads to
- 2 Timothy 1:10
  And now He has revealed this grace through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has abolished death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the gospel,
- Romans 8:3
  For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin.…
- Colossians 2:15
  And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
- 1 Corinthians 15:54–57
  When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
- John 1:14
  The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Through
Ephesians 5:30
For we are members of His body.
leads to
- Genesis 2:23
  And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Corinthians 6:15
  Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!
- 1 Corinthians 12:12–27
  The body is a unit, though it is composed of many parts. And although its parts are many, they all form one body. So it is with Christ.

About Judges

The Death of Gideon's Sons — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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PlaceCentral hill countryShechemThe city between Ebal and Gerizim where Abram built his first altar in the land, where Joshua set the people to choose whom they w…

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06About Judges

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