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Judges 9

Judg. 9:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And they gave
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
him threescore and ten
shib`iym. (Hebrew #7657)
seventy
KJV usage: seventy, threescore and ten (+ -teen).
Pronounce: shib-eem'
Origin: multiple of 7651
pieces of silver
keceph (Hebrew #3701)
silver (from its pale color); by implication, money
KJV usage: money, price, silver(-ling).
Pronounce: keh'-sef
Origin: from 3700
out of the house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
of Baal-berith
Ba`al (Hebrew #1170)
Baal of (the) covenant; Baal-Berith, a special deity of the Shechemites
KJV usage: Baal-berith.
Pronounce: Briyth
Origin: from 1168 and 1285
h, wherewith Abimelech
'Abiymelek (Hebrew #40)
father of (the) king; Abimelek, the name of two Philistine kings and of two Israelites
KJV usage: Abimelech.
Pronounce: ab-ee-mel'-ek
Origin: from 1 and 4428
hired
sakar (Hebrew #7936)
a primitive root (apparently akin (by prosthesis) to 3739 through the idea of temporary purchase; compare 7937); to hire
KJV usage: earn wages, hire (out self), reward, X surely.
Pronounce: saw-kar'
Origin: or (by permutation) cakar (Ezra 4:5) {saw-kar'}
i vain
reyq (Hebrew #7386)
from 7324; empty; figuratively, worthless
KJV usage: emptied(-ty), vain (fellow, man).
Pronounce: rake
Origin: or (shorter) req {rake}
and light
pachaz (Hebrew #6348)
to bubble up or froth (as boiling water), i.e. (figuratively) to be unimportant
KJV usage: light.
Pronounce: paw-khaz'
Origin: a primitive root
persons
'enowsh (Hebrew #582)
properly, a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified 120); hence, a man in general (singly or collectively)
KJV usage: another, X (blood-)thirsty, certain, chap(-man); divers, fellow, X in the flower of their age, husband, (certain, mortal) man, people, person, servant, some ( X of them), + stranger, those, + their trade. It is often unexpressed in the English versions, especially when used in apposition with another word . Compare 376.
Pronounce: en-oshe'
Origin: from 605
, which followed
yalak (Hebrew #3212)
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
KJV usage: X again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, + follow(-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, made) go (away, -ing, -ne, one's way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, + pursue, cause to run, spread, take away ((-journey)), vanish, (cause to) walk(-ing), wax, X be weak.
Pronounce: yaw-lak'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1980)
him
'achar (Hebrew #310)
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
KJV usage: after (that, -ward), again, at, away from, back (from, -side), behind, beside, by, follow (after, -ing), forasmuch, from, hereafter, hinder end, + out (over) live, + persecute, posterity, pursuing, remnant, seeing, since, thence(-forth), when, with.
Pronounce: akh-ar'
Origin: from 309
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Judg. 8:33• 33And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god. (Judg. 8:33)
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Judg. 11:8• 8And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead. (Judg. 11:8)
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2 Chron. 13:7• 7And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them. (2 Chron. 13:7)
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Prov. 12:11• 11He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding. (Prov. 12:11)
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Acts 17:5• 5But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people. (Acts 17:5)

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Abimelech,
Baal-berith,
House,
Pieces of Gold or of Silver,
Silver,
Ten

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Judg. 9:46‑49• 46And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.
 47And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
 48And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.
 49And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women. (Judg. 9:46‑49)
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Judg. 8:33• 33And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god. (Judg. 8:33)
vain, etc.{Anashim raikim oophochozim,} "worthless and dissolute men;" persons who were living on the public, and had nothing to lose.
Such was the foundation of his Babel government.
By a cunning management of such unprincipled men most revolutions are brought about.
Judg. 11:3• 3Then Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt in the land of Tob: and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah, and went out with him. (Judg. 11:3)
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1 Sam. 22:2• 2And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men. (1 Sam. 22:2)
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2 Chron. 13:7• 7And there are gathered unto him vain men, the children of Belial, and have strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not withstand them. (2 Chron. 13:7)
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Job 30:8• 8They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. (Job 30:8)
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Prov. 12:11• 11He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding. (Prov. 12:11)
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Acts 17:5• 5But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people. (Acts 17:5)
• {v.4-5} Baal's treasure took the place of Jehovah's power, and furnished the usurper with the means of persecuting and cutting off the posterity of faith, the family of God (ver. 5). (“Fresh Declension and Fresh Revivals: Abimelech, or the Usurpation of Authority: Judges 9” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-Berith, and Abimelech hired with them vain and wanton men, and they followed him.