Abimelech got him 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 up, and laid it on his shoulder: and he said to the people who were with him, What you have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.
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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…
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Albert Barnes
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