Juízes 9:25

A Biblia Sagrada

E os cidados de Siqum puseram contra ele quem lhe armasse emboscadas sobre os cumes dos montes; e a todo aquele que passava pelo caminho junto a eles o assaltavam; e contou-se isso a Abimeleque.

Parallel Translations

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
Os cidados de Siqum puseram contra ele homens de emboscada sobre os cimos dos montes; e todo aquele que passava pelo caminho junto a eles, eles o assaltavam; e isto se contou a Abimeleque.

Almeida Revista e Corrigida
E os cidados de Siqum puseram contra ele quem lhe armasse emboscadas sobre os cumes dos montes; e a todo aquele que passava pelo caminho junto a eles o assaltavam; e contou-se a Abimeleque.

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.