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A Biblia Sagrada
Juízes 9:26
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Concordances:
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- CondensedParallel Translations
Veio tambm Gaal, filho de Ebede, com seus irmos, e se estabeleceram em Siqum; e os cidados de Siqum confiaram nele,
Veio tambm Gaal, filho de Ebede, com seus irmos, e passaram para dentro de Siqum; e os cidados de Siqum se fiaram nele.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
brethren: Genesis 13:8, Genesis 19:7
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Gaal the son or Ebed came with his brethren, and went over to Shechem,.... Who this Gaal was, and who his brethren, and from whence he came, and the place he went over, are all uncertain. Jarchi thinks he was a Gentile, and it looks, by some speeches of his afterwards, as if he was a descendant of Hamor, prince of Shechem, in the times of Jacob, who, since the expulsion of the Canaanites, his family had retired to some distant parts; but hearing of a difference between Abimelech and the Shechemites, Gaal, with some of the family, came over, perhaps over Jordan, to make what advantage he could of it:
and the men of Shechem put their confidence in him; freely told him their mind, the ill opinion they had of Abimelech, and what was their design against him; and he assuring them he would take their part, and defend them to the uttermost, they depended on him, and therefore very securely went about their business in the fields, as follows.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
It does not appear who Gaal, son of Ebed, was; he may have been an officer sent by Abimelech with a force to bring the men of Shechem back to their allegiance, but who tried to turn the rebellion to his own account. He got into Shechem with a band of men, “his brethren,” unopposed by Zebul, Abimelech’s officer, and soon gained the confidence of the Shechemites,
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 26. Gaal the son of Ebed — Of this person we know no more than is here told. He was probably one of the descendants of the Canaanites, who hoped from the state of the public mind, and their disaffection to Abimelech, to cause a revolution, and thus to restore the ancient government as it was under Hamor, the father of Shechem.
