Judges 9:7

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When this had been reported to Jotham, he went and stood at the top of Mount Gerizim. And lifting up his voice, he cried out and said: "Listen to me, men of Shechem, so that God may listen to you.

Cross References

Genesis 37:6

And he said to them, "Listen to my dream that I saw.

Proverbs 21:13

Whoever blocks his ears to the outcry of the poor shall also cry out himself, and he will not be heeded.

Proverbs 28:9

Whoever turns away his ears from listening to the law: his prayer will be detestable.

Isaiah 1:15

And so, when you extend your hands, I will avert my eyes from you. And when you multiply your prayers, I will not heed you. For your hands are full of blood.

John 4:20

Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you say that Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship."

Deuteronomy 11:29

Yet truly, when the Lord your God will have led you into the land, to which you are traveling for a habitation, you shall place the blessing upon Mount Gerizim, the curse upon Mount Ebal,

Deuteronomy 11:30

which are across the Jordan, behind the way which slopes toward the setting of the sun, in the land of the Canaanite, who lives in the plains opposite Gilgal, which is near the valley extending toward and entering a distant place.

Deuteronomy 27:12

"These shall stand upon Mount Gerizim, as a blessing to the people, when you will have crossed the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

James 2:13

For judgment is without mercy toward him who has not shown mercy. But mercy exalts itself above judgment.

Joshua 8:33

Then all the people, and those greater by birth, and the commanders and judges were standing on both sides of the ark, in the sight of the priests who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord, with both the new arrival and the native born, one half part of them beside Mount Gerizim, and one half beside Mount Ebal, just as Moses, the servant of the Lord, had instructed. And first, certainly, he blessed the people of Israel.

Judges 9:6

Then all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the families of the city of Millo, and they went and appointed Abimelech as king, beside the oak that stood at Shechem.

Judges 9:8

The trees went to anoint a king over themselves. And they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us.'