Hakim-hakim 9:5

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Ia pergi ke rumah ayahnya di Ofra, lalu membunuh saudara-saudaranya, anak-anak Yerubaal, tujuh puluh orang, di atas satu batu. Tetapi Yotam, anak bungsu Yerubaal tinggal hidup, karena ia menyembunyikan diri.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Ia pergi ke rumah ayahnya di Ofra, lalu membunuh saudara-saudaranya, anak-anak Yerubaal, tujuh puluh orang, di atas satu batu. Tetapi Yotam, anak bungsu Yerubaal tinggal hidup, karena ia menyembunyikan diri.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka masuklah ia ke dalam rumah bapanya yang di Ofera itu, dibunuhnya akan segala kakak adiknya, semuanya anak laki-laki Yerub-Baal, tujuh puluh orang, pada sebuah batu, tetapi Yotam, anak bungsu Yerub-Baal itu, tinggal dengan hidupnya, karena telah disembunyikannya dirinya.

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

at Ophrah: Judges 6:24

slew: 2 Kings 10:17, 2 Kings 11:1, 2 Kings 11:2, 2 Chronicles 21:4, Matthew 2:16, Matthew 2:20

Reciprocal: Judges 8:30 - threescore Judges 8:35 - showed Judges 9:18 - are risen 1 Kings 1:12 - the life 1 Kings 11:3 - seven hundred 2 Kings 10:7 - slew seventy 1 Chronicles 5:17 - Jotham 2 Chronicles 13:21 - begat Ecclesiastes 10:8 - that

Cross-References

Genesis 9:1
And god blessed Noah, and his sonnes, & saide vnto them, be fruitfull and multiplie, and replenishe the earth.

Genesis 9:9
Beholde, I, euen I establishe my couenaunt with you, and with your seede after you:

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 9:28
Noah liued after the fludde three hundred and fiftie yeres.

Genesis 9:29
And all the dayes of Noah, were nine hundred and fiftie yeres, and he dyed.

Exodus 20:13
Thou shalt not kyll.

Exodus 21:12
He that smyteth a man, that he dye, shalbe slayne for it.

Leviticus 19:16
Thou shalt not go vp and downe with tales among thy people, neither shalt thou stande agaynst the blood of thy neighbour: I am the Lorde.

Psalms 9:12
For he maketh inquisition of blood: he remembreth it, and forgetteth not the complaynt of the poore.

Matthew 23:35
That vpon you may come all the ryghteous blood, which hath ben shed vpon the earth, from the blood of ryghteous Abel, vnto the blood of Zacharias, sonne of Barachias, whom ye slewe betwene the temple & the aulter.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he went to his father's house at Ophrah,.... Which, according to Bunting a, was ten miles from Shechem:

and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, upon one stone: in which he was assisted by the ruffians he had hired with seventy pieces of silver; these were laid one after another upon one and the same stone, as being convenient for the execution of them; or as serving as an altar on which they were sacrificed to Baal, out of whose temple the money was taken to hire the executioners with. They are said to be seventy that were slain, though one escaped, the round number being given, as in many other instances, as in

Genesis 46:27,

notwithstanding, yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; or remained alive, not out of compassion to his youth, but because he could not be found:

for he hid himself; for no doubt Abimelech, and his crew, were most forward to lay hold of the eldest, and sacrifice them first, as being most in his way; this gave Jotham the youngest not only notice of their design, but an opportunity of providing for his safety, or however his friends; for it may be rendered, as in some versions, "he was hidden" b, that is, by others.

a Travels of the Patriarchs, c. p. 111. b נחבא εκρυβη Sept. "absconditus est", V. L. "qui absconditus fuit", Tigurine version so the Targum.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Such wholesale slaughters have always been common in Eastern monarchies, and are among the fruits of polygamy.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 9:5. Slew his brethren — His brothers by the father's side, Judges 8:30. This was a usual way of securing an ill-gotten throne; the person who had no right destroying all those that had right, that he might have no competitors.

Yet Jotham - was left — That is, all the seventy were killed except Jotham, if there were not seventy besides Jotham. All the histories of all the nations of the earth are full of cruelties similar to those of Abimelech: cousins, uncles, brothers, husbands, and fathers have been murdered by their cousins, nephews, brothers, wives, and children, in order that they might have the undisturbed possession of an ill-gotten throne. Europe, Asia, and Africa, can witness all this. Even now, some of these horribly obtained governments exist.