Geneva Bible Notes: Judges 9

Judges 9:1 (a) To practise with his kinfolkes for the atteining of the kingdome.

Judges 9:1 (!) Abimelech vsurpeth the kingdome and putteth his brethern to death.

Judges 9:2 (b) Of your kinred by my mothers side.

Judges 9:4 (/) Or, idle felowes and vacabonds.

Judges 9:5 (c) Thus tyrants to establishe their vsurped power spare not the innoncent blood, {1King. 10,7, 2 Chro. 21,4}.

Judges 9:6 (d) Which was as the towne house or commun hal which he calleth the towre of Shechem, {vers. 49}.

Judges 9:7 (!) Jotham proposeth a parable.

Judges 9:8 (e) By this parable he declareth that those that are not ambitious are moste worthy of honour, and that the ambitous abuse their honour bothe to their owne destruction and others.

Judges 9:14 (/) Or, thisel, or, breere

Judges 9:15 (f) Abimelech shal destroye the nobles of Shechem.

Judges 9:17 (/) Ebr. he cast his life farre from him.

Judges 9:19 (g) That he is your King, and you his subjectes.

Judges 9:23 (h) Because the people consented with the King in sheding innocent blood: therefore God destroyeth bothe the one & the other.

Judges 9:23 (!) Hatred betwene Abimelech & the Shechemites.

Judges 9:26 (!) Gaal conspireth against him, and is ouercome.

Judges 9:27 (i) Before they were afrayd of Abimelechs power, & durst not go out of the citie.

Judges 9:29 (k) Braggingly as thogh he had bene present, or to his captaine Zebul.

Judges 9:31 (/) Ebr. craftely.

Judges 9:33 (!) Abimelech is wounded to death by a woman.

Judges 9:33 (/) Ebr. what thine hand can finde.

Judges 9:36 (l) Thou art afrayd of a shadowe.

Judges 9:37 (/) Ebr. by the nauel.

Judges 9:37 (/) Or, charmers.

Judges 9:39 (m) As their captaine.

Judges 9:43 (n) Which were of his companie.

Judges 9:45 (o) That it shulde be vnfruteful and neuer serue to anie vse.

Judges 9:46 (p) That is, of Baal-berith, as {Chap. 8,33}.

Judges 9:49 (q) Meaning, that all were destroyed, aswel thei in the towre as the other.

Judges 9:54 (r) Thus God by suche miserable death taketh vengeance on tyrants euen in this life.

Judges 9:57 (s) For making a tyrant their King.