John Gill's Exposition on Judges 9:16

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Abimelech king, etc.] If they had done this conscientiously, and in the uprightness of their hearts, to take such a base man, and a murderer, and make him their king, which Jotham doubted, and put it in this manner to them, that they might consider of it themselves: if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal, and his house; if they could think so, which surely they could not, when they reflected upon the murder of his family they had consented to: and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands; to his memory, and to his family, according to the merit of his works which he had performed on their account, next mentioned.

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