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Hakim-hakim 9:46

Mendengar itu masuklah seluruh warga kota Menara-Sikhem ke dalam liang di bawah kuil El-Berit.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Baal-Berith;   Judge;   Tower;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Idolatry;   Towers;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - City;   Jotham;   Shechem;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Abimelech;   Shechem;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Destroy, Destruction;   God, Names of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - City;   Gaal;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Baal (2);   Fenced Cities;   Jerusalem;   Meonenim, the Oak of;   Millo;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Abimelech;   Castle;   El-Berith;   Hold;   Judges, Book of;   Names of God;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Baal-Berith;   Government;   Israel;   Judges (1);   Levi;   Ophrah;   Palestine;   Shalman;   Shechem;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Baalberith ;   Shechem ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Tower;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Gaal;   Obsolete or obscure words in the english av bible;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Be'rith;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Baal Berith;   Cities;   Government of the Hebrews;   War;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abimelech;   Baal (1);   Elberith;   Shechem;   Tower of Shechem;   Zalmon;   Zebul;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Baal;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Baal-Berith;   Covenant;   Fortress;   Tower;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Mendengar itu masuklah seluruh warga kota Menara-Sikhem ke dalam liang di bawah kuil El-Berit.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Serta kedengaranlah hal itu kepada orang isi menara Sikhem itu, maka masuklah mereka itu ke dalam kota rumah berhala Berit.

Contextual Overview

22 When Abimelech had raigned three yeres ouer Israel, 23 God sent an euyll spirite betweene Abimelech, & the men of Sichem: and the citezins of Sichem brake their promise to Abimelech, 24 That the wickednes done to the three score and ten sonnes of Ierobaal might come on him, and that God might lay the blood of them vnto Abimelech their brother, which slue them, and vpon the other men of Sichem which ayded him in the killing of his brethren. 25 And the citezins of Sichem set men to lay awayte for hym in the toppe of the mountaynes, which men robbed al that came along the way by them: And it was tolde Abimelech. 26 And Gaal the sonne of Obed came with his brethren, and they gat them to Sichem: and the men of Sichem put their confidence in him. 27 And they went out into the fieldes, and gathered in their grapes, & trode them, and made mery, & went into the house of their god, and dyd eate and drinke, and cursed Abimelech. 28 And Gaal the sonne of Obed sayde: what is Abimelech? & what is Sichem, that we shoulde serue him? Is he not the sonne of Ierobaal? & Zebul is his officer? Serue such as come of Hemor the father of Sichem: for what reason is it that we shoulde serue him? 29 Woulde God this people were vnder my hande, then would I take Abimelech out of ye way. And he spake against Abimelech: Make thine hoast greater, and go out. 30 And when Zebul the ruler of the citie hearde the wordes of Gaal the sonne of Obed, he was wroth. 31 And sent messengers vnto Abimelech priuyly, saying: Behold, Gaal the sonne of Obed and his brethren be come to Sichem, and beholde they fortifie the citie agaynst thee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

an hold: Judges 9:4, Judges 9:27, Judges 8:33, 1 Kings 8:26, 2 Kings 1:2-4, Psalms 115:8, Isaiah 28:15-18, Isaiah 37:38

Reciprocal: Joshua 10:18 - General 2 Kings 9:13 - on the top

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that,.... That the city of Shechem was taken, the inhabitants of it slain, the city beaten down, and sowed with salt; by which it appears that this tower was not within the city, for then the men of it would have seen what was done, and not be said only to hear it; though it was not far from it, and possessed by Shechemites, and whither some of the principal inhabitants had now fled for safety; perhaps it is the same with the house of Millo, and so that part of Jotham's curse, which respected that, had now its accomplishment, otherwise no account is given of it:

they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith; not thinking themselves safe enough in the tower, they betook themselves to the temple of Baalberith their god, see Judges 9:4 which was a strong fortified place, as temples often were; or however had a strong hold belonging to it, and hither they fled, either because of the greater strength of the place, or because of the sanctity of it, and imagining Abimelech would not destroy it on that account; and the rather, because of the supply he had from it, which enabled him to raise himself to the government of Israel.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

An hold of the house of the god Berith - As combining the advantages of a “sanctuary” (compare 1 Kings 2:28) and a fortress. The word rendered “hold” occurs elsewhere only in 1 Samuel 13:6, where it is rendered “high-place.” Its exact signification is uncertain.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 9:46. A hold of the house of the god Berith. — This must mean the precincts of the temple, as we find there were a thousand men and women together in that place.


 
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