Juízes 9:5

A Biblia Sagrada

E veio casa de seu pai, a Ofra e matou a seus irmos, os filhos de Jerubaal, setenta homens, sobre uma pedra. Porm Joto, filho menor de Jerubaal, ficou, porque se tinha escondido.

Parallel Translations

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
Foi casa de seu pai, a Ofra, e matou seus irmos, os filhos de Jerubaal, setenta homens, sobre uma pedra. Porm Joto, filho menor de Jerubaal, ficou, porque se escondera.

Almeida Revista e Corrigida
E veio casa de seu pai, a Ofra, e matou os seus irmos, os filhos de Jerubaal, setenta homens, sobre uma pedra. Porm Joto, filho menor de Jerubaal, ficou, porque se tinha escondido.

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

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.