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La Biblia Reina-Valera

Jueces 9:52

Y vino Abimelech á la torre, y combatiéndola, llegóse á la puerta de la torre para pegarle fuego.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Judge;   Judgments;   Thebez;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Jotham;   Shechem;   Thebez;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Abimelech;   Shechem;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Abimelech;   City;   Thebez;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gate;   Thebez;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Abimelech;   Judges, Book of;   Thebez;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Abimelech;   Fortification and Siegecraft;   Government;   Hard;   Israel;   Judges (1);   Levi;   Ophrah;   Palestine;   Shalman;   Shechem;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gate;   Shechem ;   Thebez ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Gate;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Cities;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abimelech;   Hard;   Siege;  

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Y Abimelec vino a la torre, la atacó y se acercó a la entrada de la torre para prenderle fuego.
La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Y vino Abimelec a la torre, y combatiéndola, se acercó a la puerta de la torre para prenderle fuego.
Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Y vino Abimelec a la torre, y combatiéndola, llegó a la puerta de la torre para pegarle fuego.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Judges 9:48, Judges 9:49, 2 Kings 14:10, 2 Kings 15:16

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Abimelech came unto the tower,.... With his army to besiege it:

and fought against it; using all the methods he could to oblige those in it to surrender:

and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire; in order to get entrance into it; and perhaps the tower was built of stone, so that no other part could be set fire to; and to do this he drew near to the door himself, for nothing more is meant by the phrase, "went hard", than drawing near in his own person to the door; hazarding his life in the enterprise, being so bent upon it, thinking to do by this tower what he had done to the hold of the temple of Baalberith.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Went hard unto the door ... - i. e. went close to the door. An act of manifest danger, seeing the roof was covered with persons who would be likely to throw down missiles of all sorts on the heads of their assailants. But the hatred of Abimelech, and his thirst for revenge, made him despise danger.


 
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