Shìshījì 9:7

7 Yǒu rén jiāng zhè shì gàosu Yuētǎn , tā jiù qù zhàn zaì jī lì xīn shāndǐng shàng , xiàng zhòngrén dàshēng hǎnjiào shuō , Shìjiàn rén nǎ , nǐmen yào tīng wǒde huà , shén yĕ jiù tīng nǐmen de huà .

Shìshījì 9:7 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 9:7

And when they told it to Jotham
Or when it was told him that Abimelech was made king in Shechem by some of his friends:

he went and stood in the top of Mount Gerizim;
a mount near Shechem; it hung over the city, as Josephus says ^F3, and so a very proper place to stand on and deliver a speech from it to the inhabitants of it; who, as the same writer says, were now keeping a festival, on what account he says not, perhaps to Baalberith their idol: over against this mountain was another, called Ebal, and between them a valley; and very likely they were assembled in this valley, where the children of Israel stood when the blessings were delivered from Gerizim, and the curses from Ebal; and if so, Jotham might be heard very well by the Shechemites:

and he lifted up his voice, and cried;
that he might be heard by them:

and said unto them, hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may
hearken unto you;
which was a very solemn manner of address to them, tending to excite attention, as having somewhat of importance to say to them, and suggesting, that if they did not hearken to him, God would not hearken to them when they cried to him, and therefore it behoved them to attend: it is an adjuration of them to hearken to him, or a wish that God would not hearken to them if they were inattentive to him.

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 Antiqu. l. 5. c. 7. sect. 2.

Shìshījì 9:7 In-Context

5 Tā wǎng é Fú là dào tā fùqin de jiā , jiāng tā dìxiōng , yé lù bā lì de zhòng zǐ qī shí rén dōu shā zaì yī kuaì pánshí shàng . zhǐ shèngxia yé lù bā lì de xiǎoér zǐ Yuētǎn , yīnwei tā duǒcáng le .

6 Shìjiàn rén hé mǐ luó rén dōu yītóng jùjí , wǎng Shìjiàn xiàngshù páng de zhùzi nàli , lì Yàbǐmǐlè wèi wáng .

7 Yǒu rén jiāng zhè shì gàosu Yuētǎn , tā jiù qù zhàn zaì jī lì xīn shāndǐng shàng , xiàng zhòngrén dàshēng hǎnjiào shuō , Shìjiàn rén nǎ , nǐmen yào tīng wǒde huà , shén yĕ jiù tīng nǐmen de huà .

8 Yǒu yī shí shùmù yào gāo yī shù wèi wáng , guǎnlǐ tāmen , jiù qù duì gǎnlǎn shù shuō , qǐng nǐ zuò wǒmen de wáng.

9 Gǎnlǎn shù huídá shuō , wǒ qǐ kĕn zhǐ zhù gōng fèng shén hé zūnzhòng rén de yóu , piāo yáo zaì zhòng shù zhī shàng ne .