Parallel Verses English Standard Version But the fig tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruit and go hold sway over the trees?’ King James Bible But the fig tree said unto them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees? American Standard Version But the fig-tree said unto them, Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave to and fro over the trees? Douay-Rheims Bible And it answered them: Can I leave my sweetness, and my delicious fruits, and go to be promoted among the other trees? English Revised Version But the fig tree said unto them, Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave to and fro over the trees? Webster's Bible Translation But the fig-tree said to them, Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees? Judges 9:11 Parallel Commentary Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old TestamentThey gave him seventy shekels of silver from the house of Baal-berith, i.e., from the treasury of the temple that was dedicated to the covenant Baal at Shechem, as temple treasures were frequently applied to political purposes (see 1 Kings 15:18). With this money Abimelech easily hired light and desperate men, who followed him (attached themselves to him); and with their help he murdered his brethren at Ophrah, seventy men, with the exception of Jotham the youngest, who had hidden himself. The number seventy, the total number of his brethren, is reduced by the exception mentioned immediately afterwards to sixty-nine who were really put to death. ריק, empty, i.e., without moral restraint. פּחז lit. gurgling up, boiling over; figuratively, hot, desperate men. "Upon (against) one stone," that is to say, by a formal execution: a bloody omen of the kingdom of ten tribes, which was afterwards founded at Shechem by the Ephraimite Jeroboam, in which one dynasty overthrew another, and generally sought to establish its power by exterminating the whole family of the dynasty that had been overthrown (see 1 Kings 15:27., 2 Kings 10:1.). Even in Judah, Athaliah the worshipper of Baal sought to usurp the government by exterminating the whole of the descendants of her son (2 Kings 11). Such fratricides have also occurred in quite recent times in the Mohammedan countries of the East. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Cross References Judges 9:10 And the trees said to the fig tree, 'You come and reign over us.' Judges 9:12 And the trees said to the vine, 'You come and reign over us.' Jump to Previous Ceased Hold Increase Leave Promoted Stagger Sway Sweet Sweetness Taste Tree Trees Wave WavingJump to Next Ceased Hold Increase Leave Promoted Stagger Sway Sweet Sweetness Taste Tree Trees Wave WavingLinks Judges 9:11 NIVJudges 9:11 NLT Judges 9:11 ESV Judges 9:11 NASB Judges 9:11 KJV Judges 9:11 Bible Apps Judges 9:11 Biblia Paralela Judges 9:11 Chinese Bible Judges 9:11 French Bible Judges 9:11 German Bible Bible Hub ESV Text Edition: 2016. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. |