the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
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Mga Hukom 9:50
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Thebez: According to Eusebius, thirteen miles from Shechem, towards Scythopolis. Judges 9:50
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 16:17 - besieged Tirzah
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Then went Abimelech to Thebez,.... Which, according to Ben Gersom, had rebelled against him; it was near to Shechem. Adrichomius says p, the ruins, where he thinks stood the city of Thebez, were but one furlong from Neapolis or Shechem, where, to the left of Jacob's well, were to be seen ruins of a large town, marble stones, whole pillars, and other signs of large palaces, and the soil wonderfully fruitful; and Jerome says q, that in his time there was a village called Thebes, on the borders of Neapolis or Shechem, as you go to Scythopolis, thirteen miles from it. It must be near Shechem, inhabited by Shechemites, to fulfil Jotham's curse, Judges 9:20
and encamped against Thebez, and took it: it seems not to have held out long, being deserted by its inhabitants, who fled to the tower, as follows.
p Theatrum Terrae Sanct. p. 70. q De loc. Heb. 95. D.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The men of Thebez (modern Tubas) had, doubtless, joined the Shechemites in their rebellion against Abimelech.
