Then Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him. And Abimelech took an ax in his hand and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it and laid it on his shoulder; then he said to the people who were with him, “What you have seen me do, make haste and do as I have done.”
Commentaries
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Zalmon - A lofty and thickly-wooded hill, as the etymology of the name (“shady”) implies, in the immediate neighborhood of Shechem: perhaps …
Charles Ellicott
CharlesEllicott
To mount Zalmon. — Evidently the nearest spot where he could get wood for his hideous design. Zalmon means shady. In Psal…
John Gill
JohnGill
And Abimelech got him up to Mount Zalmon
A mountain near Shechem, and thought to be the same with Salmon in ([Refere…
Matthew Henry
MatthewHenry
Abimelech intended to punish the Schechemites for slighting him now, but God punished them for their serving him formerly in the murder of Gideon's…
Albert Barnes
AlbertBarnes