Hakim-hakim 9:16

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Maka sekarang, jika kamu berlaku setia dan tulus ikhlas dengan membuat Abimelekh menjadi raja, dan jika kamu berbuat yang baik kepada Yerubaal dan kepada keturunannya dan jika kamu membalaskan kepadanya seimbang dengan jasanya--

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Maka sekarang, jika kamu berlaku setia dan tulus ikhlas dengan membuat Abimelekh menjadi raja, dan jika kamu berbuat yang baik kepada Yerubaal dan kepada keturunannya dan jika kamu membalaskan kepadanya seimbang dengan jasanya--

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka sekarangpun, sungguhkah kamu berlaku dengan tulus ikhlas dalam hal merajakan Abimelekh? sungguhkah kamu berbuat kebajikan akan Yerub-Baal dan akan orang isi rumahnya? sungguhkah kamu membalas akan dia sekadar perbuatan tangannya?

Contextual Overview

⁷ And when they tolde it to Ioatham, he went and stoode in the top of mount Garizim, and lyft vp his voyce, & cryed, and sayd vnto them: Hearken vnto me you men of Sichem, that God may hearken vnto you. ⁸ The trees went foorth to annoynt a kyng ouer them, and sayde vnto the Olyue tree: Raigne thou ouer vs. ⁹ But the Olyue tree sayd vnto them: Should I leaue my fatnesse wherwith by me they honour God and man, & to be promoted ouer the trees? ¹⁰ And the trees sayd to the figge tree: Come thou, and be kyng ouer vs. ¹¹ The figge tree aunswered them: should I forsake my sweetnes, and my good fruite, and go to be promoted ouer the trees? ¹² Then sayde the trees vnto the vine: Come thou and be kyng ouer vs. ¹³ The vine sayde vnto them: Should I leaue my wine wherby I cheare both God and man, and go to be promoted ouer the trees? ¹⁴ Then said all the trees vnto the bryer: Come thou and raigne ouer vs. ¹⁵ And the bryer sayde vnto the trees: If it be true that ye will annoynt me kyng ouer you, then come and put your trust vnder my shadow: If no, the fyre come out of the bryer, & waste the Cedar trees of Libanon. ¹⁶ Nowe therfore, if ye do truely and vncorruptly to make Abimelech kyng, and if ye haue dealte well with Ierobaal & his house, and haue done vnto hym according to the deseruing of his handes:

Bible Verse Review
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according: Judges 8:35

Reciprocal: Judges 9:23 - dealt Isaiah 8:6 - rejoice

Cross-References

Genesis 9:3
Euery thyng that moueth it selfe, and that liueth, shall be meate for you, euen as the greene hearbe haue I geue you all thinges.

Genesis 9:4
But flesh in the life therof [which is] the blood therof, shall ye not eate.

Genesis 9:8
God spake also vnto Noah, & to his sonnes with hym, saying:

Genesis 9:9
Beholde, I, euen I establishe my couenaunt with you, and with your seede after you:

Genesis 9:10
And with euery liuing creature that is with you, in foule, in cattell, in euery beast of the earth whiche is with you, of all that go out of the arke, whatsoeuer liuing thyng of the earth it be.

Genesis 9:11
And my couenaunt I make with you, that from hencefoorth euery fleshe be not rooted out with the waters of a fludde, neither shall there be a fludde to destroy the earth any more.

Genesis 9:21
And he drynkyng of the wyne, was dronken, and vncouered within his tent.

Genesis 9:22
And Ham the father of Chanaan, seeyng the nakednesse of his father, tolde his two brethren without.

Genesis 17:7
Moreouer I wyll make my couenaunt betweene me and thee, & thy seede after thee, in their generations, by an euerlasting couenaut, yt I may be God vnto thee, and to thy seede after thee.

Genesis 17:13
He that is borne in thy house, and he also that is bought with money, must needes be circumcised: & my couenaut shalbe in your fleshe for an euerlastyng couenaunt.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Abimelech king,.... If they had done this conscientiously, and in the uprightness of their hearts, to take such a base man, and a murderer, and make him their king, which Jotham doubted, and put it in this manner to them, that they might consider of it themselves:

if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal, and his house; if they could think so, which surely they could not, when they reflected upon the murder of his family they had consented to:

and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands; to his memory, and to his family, according to the merit of his works which he had performed on their account, next mentioned.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This fable and that noted in the marginal reference are the only two of the kind found in Scripture. Somewhat different are the parables of the Old Testament, 2 Samuel 12:1-4; 2 Samuel 14:5-11; 1 Kings 20:39-40.

Judges 9:9

Honour God and man - Alluding to the constant use of oil in the meat-offerings Leviticus 2:1-16, and in the holy ointment Exodus 30:24-25. In like manner, the allusion in Judges 9:13 is to the drink-offerings of wine. See Leviticus 23:13; Numbers 15:10.

Judges 9:14

The bramble - Said to be the Rhamnus Paliurus of Linnaeus, otherwise called Spina-Christi, or Christ’s Thorn, a shrub with sharp thorns. The application is obvious. The noble Gideon and his worthy sons had declined the proffered kingdom. The vile, base-born Abimelech had accepted it, and his act would turn out to the mutual ruin of himself and his subjects.

Judges 9:15

If in truth - i. e. consistently with truth, honor, and uprightness, as explained in the interpretation in Judges 9:16, Judges 9:19.

Let fire come out ... - The propriety of the image is strictly preserved, for even the thorns of the worthless bramble might kindle a flame which would burn the stately cedars to the ground. See Psalms 58:9.

Judges 9:16-20

These verses contain the interpretation of the fable. In them Jotham points out the base ingratitude of the people in raising Abimelech upon the ruin of Gideon’s house, and foretells the retribution which would fall upon both parties.