Shìshījì 6:30

30 Chéng lǐ de rén duì yuē a shī shuō , jiāng nǐ érzi jiāo chūlai , hǎo zhìsǐ tā . yīnwei tā chāihuǐ le bā lì de tán , kǎn xià tán páng de mùǒu .

Shìshījì 6:30 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 6:30

Then the men of the city said unto Joash
The principal inhabitants of the place met together, and in a body went to Joash their chief magistrate, to have justice done in this case:

bring out thy son, that he may die;
they do not ask to have the cause tried by him, to hear what proof they had of the fact, or what Gideon had to say in his own defence; nor do they wait for the sentence of Joash, but determine it themselves, and require the delinquent to be given up to them, that they might put him to death; a strange request of Israelites, whose law judged no man before it heard him; and besides, according to that, the worshippers of Baal, and not the destroyers of him, and his altars, were to be put to death, which shows how strangely mad and infatuated these people were:

because he hath cut down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut
down the grove that was by it;
they take no notice of the bullock which he had taken and offered, it being his father's property; and which seems to confirm the sense of our version, that there was but one, ( Judges 6:25 ) for had the second been a different one, and the people's property, they would have accused him of theft as well as sacrilege respecting that.

Shìshījì 6:30 In-Context

28 Chéng lǐ de rén qīngzǎo qǐlai , jiàn bā lì de tán chāihuǐ , tán páng de mùǒu kǎn xià , dì èr zhǐ niú xiàn zaì xīn zhú de tán shàng ,

29 Jiù bǐcǐ shuō , zhè shì shì shuí zuò de ne . tāmen fǎng chá zhī hòu , jiù shuō , zhè shì yuē a shī de érzi Jīdiàn zuò de .

30 Chéng lǐ de rén duì yuē a shī shuō , jiāng nǐ érzi jiāo chūlai , hǎo zhìsǐ tā . yīnwei tā chāihuǐ le bā lì de tán , kǎn xià tán páng de mùǒu .

31 Yuē a shī huídá zhàn zhe gōngjī tāde zhòngrén shuō , nǐmen shì wèi bā lì zhēnglùn ma . nǐmen yào jiù tā ma . shuí wèi tā zhēnglùn , chèn zǎo jiāng shuí zhìsǐ . bā lì ruò guǒ shì shén , yǒu rén chāihuǐ tāde tán , ràng tā wèi zìjǐ zhēnglùn ba .

32 Suǒyǐ dāng rì rén chēng Jīdiàn wèi yé lù bā lì , yìsi shuō , tā chāihuǐ bā lì de tán , ràng bā lì yǔ tā zhēnglùn .