Judges 9:53-57
woman Judg 9:15, Judg 9:20; 2Sam 11:21, 2Sam 20:21; Job 31:3; Jer 49:20, Jer 50:45 and all to An antiquated expression, meaning "full intention" to complete an object. "All to," observes Dr. Johnson, "is a particle of mere enforcement." The original is wattaritz eth gulgalto, which is simply as the LXX render και εκλασε το κρανιον αυτου, "and she brake his skull." Plutarch relates, that Pyrrhus was killed at the siege of Thebes, by a piece of a tile, which a woman threw upon his head. Draw thy 1Sam 31:4-5 And his young man It was a disgrace to be killed by a woman. 2Sam 18:16, 2Sam 20:21-22; 1Kgs 22:35-36; Prov 22:10 God rendered Both the fratricide Abimelech and the unprincipled men of Shechem had the iniquity visited upon them of which they had been guilty. Man's judgment may be avoided; but there is no escape from that of God. How many houses have been sown with salt in France, by the just judgment of God, for the massacre of the Protestants on the eve of St. Bartholomew! See note on Judg 9:45. Judg 9:24; Job 31:3; Ps 9:12, Ps 11:6, Ps 58:10-11, Ps 94:23; Prov 5:22; Matt 7:2; Acts 28:4; Gal 6:7; Rev 19:20-21 upon them Judg 9:20, Judg 9:45; Josh 6:26; 1Kgs 16:34
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