Hakim-hakim 9:4

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Sesudah itu mereka memberikan kepadanya tujuh puluh uang perak dari kuil Baal-Berit, lalu Abimelekh memberi perak itu sebagai upah kepada petualang-petualang dan orang-orang nekat supaya mengikuti dia.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sesudah itu mereka memberikan kepadanya tujuh puluh uang perak dari kuil Baal-Berit, lalu Abimelekh memberi perak itu sebagai upah kepada petualang-petualang dan orang-orang nekat supaya mengikuti dia.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka diberikannyalah kepadanya tujuh puluh keping perak dari dalam rumah Baal-Berit, lalu diupahkan Abimelekh dengan dia beberapa orang perlente yang tiada ketahuan, supaya mereka itu mengikut dia.

Contextual Overview

¹ Abimelech the sonne of Ierobaal! went to Sichem vnto his mothers brethren, & communed with them, & with all the kynrede of the house of his mothers father, saying: ² Saye I pray you, in the eares of all the men of Sichem, whether is better for you, that all the sonnes of Ierobaal, (which are threescore and ten persons) raigne ouer you: either that one raigne ouer you? Remember that I am of your bone, and of your fleshe. ³ And his mothers brethren spake of him in the audience of all the men of Sichem all these wordes, & their heartes were moued to folow Abimelech: For they sayde, He is our brother. ⁴ And they gaue him threescore and ten peeces of siluer out of the house of Baal Berith, wherwith Abimelech hyred vayne and light persons, which went with hym. ⁵ And he went vnto his fathers house at Ephrah, and slue his brethren, the sonnes of Ierobaal, beyng threescore & ten persons, vpon one stone: Notwithstandyng, yet Ioatham the youngest sonne of Ierobaal escaped, for he hyd hymselfe. ⁶ And all the men of Sichem gathered together, and al the house of Mello, and came and made Abimelech kyng in the playne, where the stone was in Sichem.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

house: Judges 9:46-49, Judges 8:33

vain: etc. Anashim raikim oophochozim, "worthless and dissolute men;" persons who were living on the public, and had nothing to lose. Such was the foundation of his Babel government. By a cunning management of such unprincipled men most revolutions are brought about. Judges 11:3, 1 Samuel 22:2, 2 Chronicles 13:7, Job 30:8, Proverbs 12:11, Acts 17:5

Reciprocal: Judges 9:27 - the house 2 Samuel 6:20 - vain fellows Proverbs 28:19 - but Daniel 11:24 - he shall scatter 2 Corinthians 1:17 - lightness

Cross-References

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 9:14
And it shall come to passe, that when I bryng a cloude vpon the earth, the bowe also shalbe seene in ye same cloude.

Leviticus 3:17
Let it be a perpetuall statute for your generations throughout your dwellynges, yt ye eate neither fat nor blood.

Leviticus 7:26
Moreouer, ye shall eate no maner of blood, whether it be of foule or of beast, in any your dwellynges.

Leviticus 19:26
Ye shall not eate vpon blood, neither shall ye vse witchcraft, nor obserue tymes.

Deuteronomy 12:16
Only ye shall not eate the blood, but powre it vpon the earth as water.

Deuteronomy 12:23
But be strong, that thou eate not the blood: for the blood is the life, and thou mayest not eate the life with the fleshe.

Deuteronomy 14:21
Ye shall eate of nothyng that dyeth alone: But thou shalt geue it vnto the straunger that is in thy citie, that he eate it, or thou mayest sell it vnto a straunger: For thou art an holy people vnto the Lorde thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mothers milke.

Deuteronomy 15:23
Only eate not the blood therof: but powre it vpon the grounde as water.

Acts 15:20
But that we write vnto them, that they absteyne themselues from fylthynesse of idols, and fro fornication, and from strangled, and from blood.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baalbirith,.... The temple of their idol; of this name

:-, out of the money which had been dedicated to his service by freewill offering, or out of a bank which they deposited there for greater safety, and perhaps out of a superstitious notion of its being more prosperous and successful: of what value these pieces were is not certain; by pieces of silver, commonly shekels are meant; but these are thought to be of too little value to be given to a man to raise an army with, or carry on a scheme to advance himself to the throne; and talents are judged to be too large a sum for such a city to contribute out of a temple of theirs, and that but lately built, as it must be since the death of Gideon; they are therefore thought to be pounds, as the Vulgate Latin version renders it; however, in the number of them there seems to be some reference to the number of Gideon's sons, who were to be destroyed by bribing men with this sum, which was the scheme concerted between Abimelech and the men of Shechem;

wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him; perhaps seventy of them, giving to each a piece or pound of silver; these were a base scoundrel sort of people, that lived in an idle scandalous manner, a sort of freebooters, that lived upon what they could lay hold on in a way of force and rapine; men of light heads and empty brains, and whose pockets were as light and empty as their heads, and fit to engage in any enterprise, though ever so barbarous, for the sake of a little money.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 9:4. Threescore and ten pieces of silver — Probably shekels; and this was the whole of his exchequer. As he was now usurping the government of God, he begins with a contribution from the idol temple. A work begun under the name and influence of the devil is not likely to end to the glory of God, or to the welfare of man.

Hired vain and light persons — אנשים ריקים ופחזים anashim reykim uphochazim, worthless and dissolute men; persons who were living on the public, and had nothing to lose. Such was the foundation of his Babel government. By a cunning management of such rascals most revolutions have been brought about.