Judges - 9:42 Meaning
“And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.”
King James Version (KJV)
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
9:30-49 Abimelech intended to punish the Schechemites for slighting him now, but God punished them for their serving him formerly in the murder of Gideon's sons. When God uses men as instruments in his hand to do his work, he means one thing, and they another. That, which they hoped would have been for their welfare, proved a snare and a trap, as those will certainly find, who run to idols for shelter; such will prove a refuge of lies.
“Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.”
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