Richteren 9:25

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

De burgers van Sichem legden hem lagen op de bergtoppen en plunderden allen die hun op den weg voorbijtrokken. En het werd Abimelech medegedeeld.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
En de mannen van Sichem leidden ene hinderlaag op de toppen der bergen, en beroofden allen, die op den weg hun voorbijgingen; en het werd Abimlech te kennen gegeven.

Staten Vertaling
En de burgers van Sichem bestelden tegen hem, die op de hoogten der bergen lagen leiden, en al wie voorbij hen op den weg doorging, beroofden zij; en het werd Abimelech aangezegd.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Joshua 8:4, Joshua 8:12, Joshua 8:13, Proverbs 1:11, Proverbs 1:12

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him in the top of the mountains,.... Of Ebal and Gerizim, which were near Shechem, by the way of which he passed when he came to that city, and these they set there, either to slay him, or to seize his person, and bring him to them:

and they robbed all that came along that way by them; that belonged to Abimelech and others also; and this they did to show their contempt of his government, and that they were no longer under it, and every man did what was right in his own eyes, as if they had no governor over them; though some think this was done to draw him thither to secure his subjects from such rapine and violence, that they might have an opportunity to lay hold upon him, or this they did on purpose to begin a civil war:

and it was told Abimelech; that they lay in wait for him, and so he kept himself from them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 9:25. The men of Shechem set liers in wait — It pleased God to punish this bad man by the very persons who had contributed to his iniquitous elevation. So God often makes the instruments of men's sins the means of their punishment. It is likely that although Abimelech had his chief residence at Shechem, yet he frequently went to Ophrah, the city of his father; his claim to which there was none to oppose, as he had slain all his brethren. It was probably in his passage between those two places that the Shechemites had posted cut-throats, in order to assassinate him; as such men had no moral principle, they robbed and plundered all who came that way.