Shìshījì 9:54

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 .

Shìshījì 9:54 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 9:54

Then he called hastily to the young man his armourbearer,
&c.] Perceiving it was a mortal blow that was given him, and he should soon expire; and that the cast of the stone was by the hand of a woman, and therefore he was in haste to have the young man come to him:

and said unto him, draw thy sword and slay me, that men say not of me,
a woman slew him;
it being reckoned very ignominious and reproachful to die by the hand of a woman, and especially any great personage, as a king or general of an army ^F19; to avoid this, he chose rather to be guilty of suicide, or of what cannot well be excused from it, and so died by suicide; which, added to all his other sins, he seemed to have no sense of, or repentance for; and the method he took to conceal the shame of his death served the more to spread it; for this circumstance of his death could not be given without the reason of it, and which was remembered and related punctually near two hundred years afterwards, ( 2 Samuel 11:21 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 "O turpe fatum! foemina Herculeae, necis Auctor feretur ----" Seneca Oetaeo.

Shìshījì 9:54 In-Context

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 .

55 Yǐsèliè rén jiàn Yàbǐmǐlè sǐ le , biàn gè huí zìjǐ de dìfang qù le .

56 Zhèyàng , shén bàoyìng Yàbǐmǐlè xiàng tā fùqin suǒ xíng de è , jiù shì shā le dìxiōng qī shí gèrén de è .