Judges 9:7

The Scriptures 2009

And they informed Yotham, and he went and stood on top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted his voice and cried out, and said to them, “Hear me, you masters of Sheḵem, and let Elohim hear you!

Cross References

Genesis 37:6

And he said to them, “Please listen to this dream which I have dreamed:

Proverbs 21:13

Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, Let him also cry and not be heard.

Proverbs 28:9

He who turns away his ear from hearing the Torah, Even his prayer is an abomination.

Isaiah 1:15

“And when you spread out your hands, I hide My eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I do not hear. Your hands have become filled with blood.

John 4:20

Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you people say that in Yerushalayim is the place where one needs to worship.”

Deuteronomy 11:29

And it shall be, when יהוה your Elohim 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 Ěyḇal.

Deuteronomy 11:30

Are they not beyond the Yardĕn, toward the setting sun, in the land of the Kena‛anites who dwell in the desert plain opposite Gilgal, beside the terebinth trees of Moreh?

Deuteronomy 27:12

“These are to stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have passed over the Yardĕn: Shim‛on, and Lĕwi, and Yehuḏah, and Yissasḵar, and Yosĕph, and Binyamin.

James 2:13

For the judgment is without compassion to the one who has shown no compassion. And compassion boasts over judgment.

Joshua 8:33

And all Yisra’ĕl – the sojourner as well as the native – with their elders and officers and judges, stood on either side of the ark before the priests, the Lĕwites, who bore the ark of the covenant of יהוה. Half of them were in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ěyḇal, as Mosheh the servant of יהוה had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Yisra’ĕl.

Judges 9:6

And all the masters of Sheḵem gathered together, and all of Bĕyth Millo, and they went and made Aḇimeleḵ sovereign beside the terebinth tree at the post that was in Sheḵem.

Judges 9:8

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