SEV Biblia, Chapter 9:17
(Pues que mi padre peleó por vosotros, y echó lejos su vida por libraros de mano de Madián;
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 17. For my father fought for you , etc.] In the valley of Jezreel, and at Karkor, where with three hundred men he routed and destroyed an army of 135,000: and adventured his life far : which, according to our version, may seem to have respect to his going over Jordan, and following the Midianites, fleeing into their country, and fighting them at Karkor, at a great distance from his native place; but the phrase in the original text is, “he cast away his life afar” f201 , made no account of it, exposed it to the greatest danger; or, as the Targum, “he delivered his life as it were to destruction:” and delivered you out of the hand of Midian ; from the oppression and bondage of the Midianites, under which they had laboured seven years.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 7-21 - There was no occasion for the trees to choose a king, they are all the trees of the Lord which he has planted. Nor was there any occasion for Israel to set a king over them, for the Lord was their King. Those wh bear fruit for the public good, are justly respected and honoured by all that are wise, more than those who merely make a figure. All thes fruit-trees gave much the same reason for their refusal to be promote over the trees; or, as the margin reads it, to go up and down for the trees. To rule, involves a man in a great deal both of toil and care Those who are preferred to public trust and power, must forego all private interests and advantages, for the good of others. And thos advanced to honour and dignity, are in great danger of losing their fruitfulness. For which reason, they that desire to do good, are afrai of being too great. Jotham compares Abimelech to the bramble of thistle, a worthless plant, whose end is to be burned. Such a one wa Abimelech.
Original Hebrew
אשׁר 834 נלחם 3898 אבי 1 עליכם 5921 וישׁלך 7993 את 853 נפשׁו 5315 מנגד 5048 ויצל 5337 אתכם 853 מיד 3027 מדין׃ 4080
