Shìshījì 9:52

52 Yàbǐmǐlè dào le lóu qián gōngdǎ , āijìn lóu mén , yào yòng huǒ fùnshāo .

Shìshījì 9:52 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 9:52

And Abimelech came unto the tower
With his army to besiege it:

and fought against it;
using all the methods he could to oblige those in it to surrender:

and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire;
in order to get entrance into it; and perhaps the tower was built of stone, so that no other part could be set fire to; and to do this he drew near to the door himself, for nothing more is meant by the phrase, "went hard", than drawing near in his own person to the door; hazarding his life in the enterprise, being so bent upon it, thinking to do by this tower what he had done to the hold of the temple of Baalberith.

Shìshījì 9:52 In-Context

50 Yàbǐmǐlè dào dī/tí beì sī , xiàng tí beì sī ān yíng , jiù gōng qǔ le nà chéng .

51 Chéng zhōng yǒu yī zuò jiāngù de lóu . chéng lǐ de zhòngrén , wúlùn nánnǚ , dōu taó jìn lóu qù , guān shàng mén , shàng le lóu dǐng .

52 Yàbǐmǐlè dào le lóu qián gōngdǎ , āijìn lóu mén , yào yòng huǒ fùnshāo .

53 Yǒu yī gè fùrén bǎ yī kuaì shàng mòshí pāo zaì Yàbǐmǐlè de tóu shàng , dǎpò le tāde nǎo gú .

54 Tā jiù jímáng hǎnjiào ná tā bīngqì de shàonián rén , duì tā shuō , bá chū nǐde dāo lái , shā le wǒ ba . miǎndé rén yìlùn wǒ shuō , tā wèi yī gè fùrén suǒ shā . yúshì shàonián rén bǎ tā cī tòu , tā jiù sǐ le .