Księga Sędziów 9:28

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Gaal, syn Ebeda, wykrzyknął: Kim jest ten Abimelek w porównaniu z Sychemem, abyśmy mieli mu służyć?! Czy to nie syn Jerubaala? A Zebul? Czy to nie jego namiestnik? Służcie ludziom Chamora, ojca Sychema! Dlaczego właściwie my mielibyśmy służyć jemu?!

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Tedy rzekł Gaal, syn Obedów: Cóż jest Abimelech? A co jest zacz Sychem, żebyśmy mu służyli? Azaż nie jest syn Jerobaalów, a przełożony od niego Zebul? Radszej służcie ludziom Hemora, ojca Sychem, bo dlaczegoż jemu służyć mamy?

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Tedy rzekł Gaal, syn Obedów: Cóż jest Abimelech? i co jest Sychem, żebyśmy mu służyli? azaż nie jest syn Jerobaalów, a Zebul urzędnikiem jego? raczej służcie mężom Hemora, ojca Sychemowego; bo czemuż byśmy onemu służyć mieli?

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
A Gaal, syn Ebeda, zawołał: Kto to jest Abimelech, abyśmy mu służyli i czym jest Szechem? Czyż nie jest on synem Jerubbaala, a Zebul jego nadzorcą? Raczej służcie mężom Hamora, praojca Szechemu! Ale tamtemu z jakiego powodu macie służyć?

Biblia Tysiąclecia
Tedy rzekł Gaal, syn Obedów: Cóż jest Abimelech? i co jest Sychem, żebyśmy mu służyli? azaż nie jest syn Jerobaalów, a Zebul urzędnikiem jego? raczej służcie mężom Hemora, ojca Sychemowego; bo czemuż byśmy onemu służyć mieli?

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Wtedy Gaal, syn Obeda, powiedział: Kim jest Abimelek i czym jest Sychem, żebyśmy mu służyli? Czy to nie jest syn Jerubbaala, a Zebul nie jest jego urzędnikiem? Służcie raczej mężczyznom Chamora, ojca Sychema. Dlaczego mielibyśmy służyć jemu?

Biblia Warszawska
Gaal, syn Obeda, powiedział wtedy: Kim jest Abimelech, a kim my, Sychemici, żebyśmy mu mieli służyć? Czyż syn Jerubbaala i Zebul jego namiestnik nie służyli potomkom Chamora, ojca Sychema? Dlaczegoż to my mielibyśmy mu służyć?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Who is Abimelech: 1 Samuel 25:10, 2 Samuel 20:1, 1 Kings 12:16

Hamor: Genesis 34:2, Genesis 34:6

Reciprocal: Judges 9:38 - General Judges 9:41 - Zebul Psalms 78:9 - turned

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Gaal the son of Ebed said,.... As they were then making merry, drinking and carousing:

who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? who is this Abimelech the Shechemite? or who is he more than Shechem, the old prince of this place, long ago dispossessed of it? the one is no better than the other, nor has a better title to rule and government than the other, that we should serve him; nay, of the two, the descendants of the old Shechem have the best title:

is not he the son of Jerubbaal? that pleaded against Baal, and threw down his altar, the god you now serve:

and Zebul his officer? has he not set him over you? not content to rule you himself, he has set up another as an officer over you under him, and thus you are like to be governed in a tyrannical manner, and oppressed:

serve the men of Hamor--for why should we serve him? that is, rather serve them than him; which was speaking very contemptuously of his government, preferring the descendants of Hamor, the old Canaanitish prince, that ruled in this place, to Abimelech; and if Gaal was a descendant of his, he spoke in good earnest, and thought this a proper opportunity to get the government of the city restored to him and his family, since their old religion and idolatry were established among them; and if they had received the one, why not the other?

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Seditious and lawless acts Judges 9:25-26 now broke out into open rebellion. It was at an idolatrous feast in the house of Baal-berith, on occasion of the vintage, and when they were excited with wine, that the rebellion was matured. Those present began to “curse Abimelech,” to speak insultingly of him, and to revile him (compare Leviticus 20:9; 2 Samuel 19:21; Isaiah 8:21). Gaal, the son of Ebed, who was watching the opportunity, immediately incited them to revolt from the dominion of Abimelech, offering himself to be their captain; adding a message of defiance to Abimelech, addressed, probably, to Zebul, who was present but too weak to resent it on the spot.

Judges 9:27

Made merry - The word translated “merry” occurs only here and in Leviticus 19:24. Its etymology gives the sense of “praises”, “thanksgivings”; and its use in these two passages rather indicates that the fruits themselves which were brought to the House of God with songs of praise, and eaten or drunken with religious service, were so called. The thank-offerings would be a portion of the new wine of the vintage which they had just gathered in.

Judges 9:28

Shechem is another designation of Abimelech. Sheehem means the son and heir of Sheehem, Abimelech’s mother being a Canaanite Judges 9:18.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 9:28. Zebul his officer — פקידו pekido, his overseer; probably governor of Shechem in his absence.