Judges 9:7

New King James Version

Now when they told Jotham, he went and stood on top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted his voice and cried out. And he said to them: “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, That God may listen to you!

Cross References

Genesis 37:6

So he said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:

Proverbs 21:13

Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor Will also cry himself and not be heard.

Proverbs 28:9

One 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; Even though you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

John 4:20

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”

Deuteronomy 11:29

Now it shall be, when the Lord your God has brought you into the land which you go to possess, that you shall put the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

Deuteronomy 11:30

Are they not on the other side of the Jordan, toward the setting sun, in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the plain opposite Gilgal, beside the terebinth trees of Moreh?

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;

James 2:13

For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Joshua 8:33

Then all Israel, with their elders and officers and judges, stood on either side of the ark before the priests, the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord, the stranger as well as he who was born among them. Half of them were in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.

Judges 9:6

And all the men of Shechem gathered together, all of Beth Millo, and they went and made Abimelech king beside the terebinth tree at the pillar that was in Shechem.

Judges 9:8

“The trees once went forth to anoint a king over them. And they said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us!’