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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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God's Purpose in Man's Vengeance
Commentators like Matthew Henry highlight a profound irony in this verse. While Abimelech acted out of personal vengeance against the people of Shechem, God was using him as an instrument of judgment. God's purpose was to punish the Schechemites for their earlier sin of helping Abimelech murder Gideon's sons, demonstrating how God sovereignly accomplishes His will even through the sinful actions of humans.
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Albert Barnes
On Judges 9:48
18th Century
Theologian
Zalmon - A lofty and thickly-wooded hill, as the etymology of the name (“shady”) implies, in the immediate neighborhood of Shechem: perhaps …
Charles Ellicott
On Judges 9:48
19th Century
Bishop
To mount Zalmon. — Evidently the nearest spot where he could get wood for his hideous design. Zalmon means shady. In Psal…
John Gill
On Judges 9:48
17th Century
Pastor
And Abimelech got him up to Mount Zalmon
A mountain near Shechem, and thought to be the same with Salmon in ([Refere…
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Matthew Henry
On Judges 9:30–49
17th Century
Minister
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…