When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and lifted up his voice, cried out, and said to them, “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and lifted up his voice, cried out, and said to them, “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.

  • KJV King James Version

    And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them: 'Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.

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Cross-references (13)

Passages linked to Judges 9:7 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 11:29 It shall happen, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land that you go to possess, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.
  • Deuteronomy 27:12 “These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have crossed over the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
  • Proverbs 28:9 He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.
  • Isaiah 1:15 When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
  • John 4:20 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”
  • Joshua 8:33 All Israel, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark before the Levitical priests, who carried the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.
  • Psalms 50:15-21 Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.” But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips, since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you? When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers. “You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit. You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son. You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
  • Proverbs 1:28-29 Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me; because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.
  • Proverbs 21:13 Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he will also cry out, but shall not be heard.
  • Psalms 18:40-41 You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me. They cried, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.
  • Isaiah 58:6-10 “Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh? Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and Yahweh’s glory will be your rear guard. Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer. You will cry for help, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from among you the yoke, finger pointing, and speaking wickedly; and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;
  • Matthew 18:26-34 The servant therefore fell down and knelt before him, saying, ‘Lord, have patience with me, and I will repay you all!’ The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt. “But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’ “So his fellow servant fell down at his feet and begged him, saying, ‘Have patience with me, and I will repay you!’ He would not, but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that which was due. So when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were exceedingly sorry, and came and told their lord all that was done. Then his lord called him in, and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you begged me. Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’ His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him.
  • James 2:13 For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

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Explain this verse (16 sources)

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jdg 9:7 And when they told [it] to Jotham,…

Jdg 9:7 And when they told [it] to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.

Ver. 7. And when they told it to Jotham.] He only escaped of all the seventy sons, to tell Abimelech and his Shechemites their own, and that on the coronation day too; thundering out God’s curses from the very mountain of blessings. This could not but be terrible, and much dissweeten that day’s solemnity. Sed surdis fabulam. Where ambition hath possessed itself thoroughly of the soul, it turneth the heart into steel, and maketh it incapable of a conscience.

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Hearken unto me, &c.] An august exordium, whereby, and by the whole speech, it appeareth that this young man was vir bonus dicendi peritus, as Quintilian saith an orator should be, one that could deliver his mind fitly, and that durst do it freely.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Mount Gerzim lay near Shechem, and near Mount Ebal.…
Matthew Henry 1710 · Public Domain We have here the only testimony that appears to…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And when they told it to Jotham,.... Or when…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Mount Gerizim - Which lay near Shechem. The valley…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 7. Stood in the top of Mount Gerizim]…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Jdg 9:7. Jotham stood in the top of mount…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The top of Mount Gerizim - The ancient Shechem…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Stood on. As Abimelech was a figure of Antichrist,…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain JOTHAM BY A PARABLE REPROACHES THEM. (Jdg 9:7-21)
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain JOTHAM’S PARABLE, Jdg_9:7-21.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 7. the top of mount Gerizim] is 979 ft.…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (7) In the top of mount Gerizim.—Unless Shechem is…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On the top of Mount Gerizim. Mount Gerizim rises…
Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain The Parable of Jotham
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