Jueces 9:49

Listen to Jueces 9:49
49 Y todo el pueblo cort贸 tambi茅n cada uno su rama y sigui贸 a Abimelec, y las pusieron sobre la fortaleza; prendieron fuego a la fortaleza sobre los que estaban adentro, y murieron tambi茅n todos los de la torre de Siquem, como mil hombres y mujeres.

Jueces 9:49 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 9:49

And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and
followed Abimelech
With their boughs on their shoulders, so that they were men that seemed to be as trees walking:

and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them;
upon the men in it, or with them, the boughs of trees; it is probable the hold was made of wood, and so could the more easily be set on fire. Jarchi says it was a wood or forest, where they bent the trees, and divided them round about, and made a fence of them; but they would scarcely have left the tower for such a shelter:

so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also;
fire being put to the hold, and they burnt in it; the Vulgate Latin version adds, with fire and smoke; for they being boughs of trees just cut down, with which they set fire to the hold, they would not burn easily and clearly, but make a prodigious smoke, with which many might be suffocated, as others burnt with fire; and it is unaccountable that Josephus F15 should say that faggots of dry wood were taken, and with them fire set to the hold, when the text is so express for it that they were boughs of green trees just cut off:

about a thousand men and women;
but the above historian makes them to be many more; he says the men were about 1500, and the rest a great multitude; this literally fulfilled Jotham's curse.


FOOTNOTES:

F15 Antiqu. l. 5. c. 7. sect. 4.
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Jueces 9:49 In-Context

47 Y le dijeron a Abimelec que todos los habitantes de la torre de Siquem estaban reunidos.
48 Abimelec subi贸 entonces al monte Salm贸n, 茅l y toda la gente que estaba con 茅l; y tomando Abimelec un hacha en su mano, cort贸 una rama de los 谩rboles, la levant贸 y la puso sobre su hombro. Y dijo a la gente que estaba con 茅l: Lo que me hab茅is visto hacer, apresuraos y haced lo mismo.
49 Y todo el pueblo cort贸 tambi茅n cada uno su rama y sigui贸 a Abimelec, y las pusieron sobre la fortaleza; prendieron fuego a la fortaleza sobre los que estaban adentro, y murieron tambi茅n todos los de la torre de Siquem, como mil hombres y mujeres.
50 Despu茅s Abimelec fue a Tebes, la siti贸 y la tom贸.
51 Pero hab铆a una torre fortificada en el centro de la ciudad, y todos los hombres y mujeres, todos los habitantes de la ciudad, huyeron all铆, se encerraron y subieron al techo de la torre.
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