Judg 9:7-15, 2Sa 14:5-11, 1Ki 20:35-41, Isa 5:1-7, Mat 21:33-45 | TSK | STEP

Judges 9:7-15

mount Gerizim.

Hearken.

Ps 18:40,41; 50:15-21; Pr 1:28,29; 21:13; 28:9; Isa 1:15; 58:6-10

The trees.This is the most ancient fable or apologue extant; and is extremely beautiful, apposite, and intelligible.

olive tree.The {zayith,} or olive tree, in the Linnean system, is a genus of the {diandra monogynia} class of plants. It is of a moderate height, and grows best in sunny places. Its trunk is knotty; bark smooth, of an ash colour: wood solid and yellowish; leaves oblong, almost like those of the willow, of a dark green colour on the upper side, and whitish below. In June it puts forth white flowers, growing in bunches, each of one piece, widening towards the top, and dividing into four parts. After this succeeds the fruit, which is oblong and plump; first green, then pale, and when quite ripe, black. Within it is enclosed a hard stone, filled with oblong seeds. It was the most useful of all trees in the forest; as the bramble was the meanest and most worthless.

Reign.

8:22,23

wherewith.

Ex 29:2,7; 35:14; Le 2:1; 1Ki 19:15,16; Ps 89:20; 104:15; Ac 4:27

Ac 10:38; 1Jo 2:20

God.{Elohim,} rather gods; the parable being adapted to the idolatrous Shechemites.

to be promoted over the trees. Heb. up and down for othertrees.

Job 1:7; 2:2

Lu 13:6,7

cheereth.

Nu 15:5,7,10; Ps 104:15; Pr 31:6; Ec 10:19

bramble. or, thistle.

2Ki 14:9

shadow.

Isa 30:2; Da 4:12; Ho 14:7; Mt 13:32

let fire.

20,49; Nu 21:28; Isa 1:31; Eze 19:14

the cedars.

2Ki 14:9; Ps 104:16; Isa 2:13; 37:24; Eze 31:3

2 Samuel 14:5-11

I am indeed.It is very possible that the principal incidents mentioned here were real; and that Joab found out a person whose circumstances bore a near resemblance to that which he wished to represent. She did not make the similitude too plain and visible, lest the king should see her intention before she had obtained a grant of pardon; and thus her circumstances, her mournful tale, her widow's dress, her aged person, (for Josephus says she was advanced in years,) and her impressive manner, all combined to make one united irresistible impression on the heart of the aged monarch.

12:1-3; Jud 9:8-15

and they two.

Ge 4:8; Ex 2:13; De 22:26,27

none to part. Heb. no deliverer between.

the whole.

Ge 4:14; Nu 35:19; De 19:12

so they.

Ge 27:45; De 25:6

quench.

12:17

upon the earth. Heb. upon the face of the earth.

I will give.

12:5,6; 16:4; Job 29:16; Pr 18:13; Isa 11:3,4

the iniquity.

Ge 27:13; 1Sa 25:24; Mt 27:25

and the king.

3:28,29; Nu 35:33; De 21:1-9; 1Ki 2:33

let the king.

Ge 14:22; 24:2,3; 31:50; 1Sa 20:42

thou, etc. Heb. the revenger of blood do not multiply todestroy. the revengers.

Nu 35:19,27; De 19:4-10; Jos 20:3-6

As the Lord.

1Sa 14:45; 28:10; Jer 4:2

not one hair.

1Ki 1:52; Mt 10:30; Ac 27:34

1 Kings 20:35-41

of the sons.

38; 1Sa 10:12; 2Ki 2:3,5,7,15; 4:1,38; Am 7:14

in the word.

13:1,2,17,18

Smite me.

37; Isa 8:18; 20:2,3; Jer 27:2,3; Eze 4:3; Mt 16:24

13:21-24,26; 1Sa 15:22,23

Smite me.

35; Ex 21:12

so that, etc. Heb. smiting and wounding.

disguised.

14:2; 22:30; 2Sa 14:2; Mt 6:16

Thy servant.

Jud 9:7-20; 2Sa 12:1-7; 14:5-7; Mr 12:1-12

thy life.

42; 2Ki 10:24

or else.

Ex 21:30; Job 36:18; Ps 49:7; Pr 6:35; 13:8; 1Pe 1:18,19

pay. Heb. weigh.

he was gone. Heb. he was not. So shall thy judgment be.

2Sa 12:5-7; Job 15:6; Mt 21:41-43; 25:24-27; Lu 19:22

the ashes away.

38; 2Sa 13:19; Job 2:8; Jer 6:26

Isaiah 5:1-7

1 Under the parable of a vineyard, God excuses his severe judgment.

8 His judgments upon covetousness;

11 upon lasciviousness;

13 upon impiety;

20 and upon injustice.

26 The executioners of God's judgments.

Now.

De 31:19-22; Jud 5:1-31; Ps 45:1; 101:1

well-beloved.

So 2:16; 5:2,16; 6:3

touching.

27:2,3; Ps 80:8; So 8:11,12; Jer 2:21; Mt 21:33; Mr 12:1; Lu 20:9

Joh 15:1

a very fruitful hill. Heb. the horn of the son of oil.

fenced it. or, made a wall about it.

Ex 33:16; Nu 23:9; De 32:8,9; Ps 44:1-3; Ro 9:4

planted.

Jer 2:21

the choicest vine.{Sorek,} in Arabic, {sharik,} certainly denotes an excellent vine; but some with Bp. Lowth, retain it as a proper name. Sorek was a valley lying between Askelon and Gaza, so called from the excellence of its vines.

Jud 16:4

and built.

1:8; Mic 4:8

made. Heb. hewed. a winepress.

63:2,3; Ne 13:15; Re 14:18-20

he looked.

7; 1:2-4,21-23; De 32:6; Mt 21:34; Mr 11:13; 12:2; Lu 13:7; 20:10-18

1Co 9:7

wild grapes.

De 32:32,33; Ho 10:1

judge.

Ps 50:4-6; 51:4; Jer 2:4,5; Mic 6:2,3; Mt 21:40,41; Mr 12:9-12

Lu 20:15,16; Ro 2:5; 3:4

1:5; 2Ch 36:14-16; Jer 2:30,31; 6:29,30; Eze 24:13; Mt 23:37

Ac 7:51-60

go to.

Ge 11:4,7

I will take.

27:10,11; Le 26:31-35; De 28:49-52; 2Ch 36:4-10; Ne 2:3

Ps 74:1-10; 80:12-16; La 1:2-9; 4:12

trodden down. Heb. for a treading.

10:6; 25:10; 28:3,18; La 1:15; Da 8:13; Lu 21:24; Re 11:2

I will lay.

9,10; 6:11,12; 24:1-3,12; 32:13,14; Le 26:33-35; De 29:23

2Ch 36:19-21; Jer 25:11; 45:4; Lu 21:24

it shall.

7:23-25; Ho 3:4

also.

30:23; De 28:23,24; Am 4:7; Zec 14:16,17; Heb 6:6-8; Re 11:6

the vineyard.

Ps 80:8-11,15; Jer 12:10

his pleasant plant. Heb. plant of his pleasures.

62:5; Ps 147:11; 149:4; So 7:6; Zep 3:17

he looked.

2; 58:6-8; Ex 22:22-27; Mic 6:8; Zec 7:9-14; Mt 3:8-10; 23:23

Joh 15:2; 1Co 6:8-11; 1Jo 3:7,8

but.The paronomasia, or play of words, is very remarkable here: he looked for {mishpat,} "judgment," but behold {mispach,} "oppression;" for {tzedakah,} "justice," but behold {tzëdkah,} "a cry."

oppression. Heb. a scab.

1:6; 3:17

a cry.

Ge 4:10; Ex 2:23,24; 3:7; 22:21-24,27; De 15:9; Ne 5:1-5

Job 31:38,39; 34:28; Pr 21:13; Lu 18:7; Jas 5:4

Matthew 21:33-45

Hear.In this parable, in its primary sense, the householder denotes the Supreme Being; the family, the Jewish nation; the vineyard, Jerusalem; the fence, the Divine protection; the wine-press, the law and sacrificial rites; the tower, the temple; and the husbandmen, the priests and doctors of the law.

13:18; 1Ki 22:19; Isa 1:10; Jer 19:3; Ho 4:1

There.

Ps 80:8-16; So 8:11,12; Isa 5:1-4; Jer 2:21; Mr 12:1; Lu 20:9-18

Joh 15:1

husbandmen.

23:2; De 1:15-17; 16:18; 17:9-12; 33:8-10; Mal 2:4-9

went.

25:14,15; Mr 13:34; Lu 19:12

he sent.

2Ki 17:13,14-23; 2Ch 36:15,16; Ne 9:29,30; Jer 25:3-7; 35:15

Zec 1:3-6; 7:9-13; Mr 12:2-5; Lu 20:10-19

that.

So 8:11,12; Isa 5:4

5:12; 23:31-37; 1Ki 18:4,13; 19:2,10; 22:24; 2Ch 16:10; 24:21,22

2Ch 36:15,16; Ne 9:26; Jer 2:30; 25:3-7; 26:21-24; Lu 13:33,34

Ac 7:52; 1Th 2:15,16; Heb 11:36,37; Re 6:9

last.

3:17; Mr 12:6; Lu 20:13; Joh 1:18,34; 3:16,35,36; Heb 1:1,2

They.

Isa 5:4; Jer 36:3; Zep 3:7

This.

2:13-16; 26:3,4; 27:1,2; Ge 37:18-20; Ps 2:2-8; Mr 12:7,8; Lu 20:14

Joh 11:47-53; Ac 4:27,28; 5:24-28

caught.

26:50,57; Mr 14:46-53; Lu 22:52-54; Joh 18:12,24; Ac 2:23; 4:25-27

cast.

Heb 13:11-13

slew.

Ac 2:23; 3:14,15; 4:10; 5:30; 7:52; Jas 5:6

what.

Mr 12:9; Lu 20:15,16; Heb 10:29

they say.Our Lord here causes them to pass that sentence of destruction upon themselves which was literally executed about forty years afterwards by the Roman armies.

He will.

3:12; 22:6,7; 23:35-38; 24:21,22; Le 26:14-46; De 28:59-68

Ps 2:4,5,9; Isa 5:5-7; Da 9:26; Zec 11:8-10; 12:12; 13:8; 14:2,3

Mal 4:1-6; Lu 17:32-37; 19:41-44; 21:22-24; 1Th 2:16; Heb 2:3; 12:25

and will let out.

43; 8:11; Isa 49:5-7; 65:15; 66:19-21; Lu 13:28,29; 14:23,24; 21:24

Ac 13:46-48; 15:7; 18:6; 28:8; Ro 9:1-11:36; 15:9-18

Did.

The stone.

Ps 118:22,23; Isa 28:16; Zec 3:8,9; Mr 12:10,11; Lu 20:17,18

Ac 4:11; Ro 9:33; Eph 2:20; 1Pe 2:4-8

and it is.