Judges 9:32 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³²Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:

Judges 9:32 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 1:11-16
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: …
Proverbs 4:16
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Job 24:14-17
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. …
Romans 3:15
Their feet are swift to shed blood:
Psalms 36:4
He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 22-49)

Three years Abimelech reigned, after a sort, without any disturbance; it is not said, He judged Israel, or did any service at all to his co 7611 untry, but so long he enjoyed the title and dignity of a king; and not only the Shechemites, but many other places, paid him respect. They must have been fond of a king that could please themselves with such a one as this. But the triumphing of the wicked…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 32)

28-45. would to God this people were under my hand--He seems to have been a boastful, impudent, and cowardly person, totally unfit to be a leader in a revolutionary crisis. The consequence was that he allowed himself to be drawn into an ambush, was defeated, the city of Shechem destroyed and strewn with salt. The people took refuge in the stronghold, which was set on fire, and all in it perished.