Judges - 9:22 Meaning

“When Abimelech had reigned three years over Israel,”

King James Version (KJV)

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

9:22-29 Abimelech is seated in the throne his father refused. But how long does this glory last? Stay but three years, and see the bramble withered and burned. The prosperity of the wicked is short and fickle. The Shechemites are plagued by no other hand than Abimelech's. They raised him unjustly to the throne; they first feel the weight of his sceptre.

“And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.”

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