SEV Biblia, Chapter 9:25
Y los seņores de Siquem le pusieron asechadores en las cumbres de los montes, los cuales salteaban a todos los que pasaban junto a ellos por el camino; de lo que fue dado aviso a Abimelec.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Judges 9:25
Verse 25. The men of Shechem set liers in wait] It pleased God to punish this bad man by the very persons who had contributed to his iniquitous elevation. So God often makes the instruments of men's sins the means of their punishment. It is likely that although Abimelech had his chief residence at Shechem, yet he frequently went to Ophrah, the city of his father; his claim to which there was none to oppose, as he had slain all his brethren. It was probably in his passage between those two places that the Shechemites had posted cut- throats, in order to assassinate him; as such men had no moral principle, they robbed and plundered all who came that way.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 25. And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him in the top of the mountains , etc.] Of Ebal and Gerizim, which were near Shechem, by the way of which he passed when he came to that city, and these they set there, either to slay him, or to seize his person, and bring him to them: and they robbed all that came along that way by them ; that belonged to Abimelech and others also; and this they did to show their contempt of his government, and that they were no longer under it, and every man did what was right in his own eyes, as if they had no governor over them; though some think this was done to draw him thither to secure his subjects from such rapine and violence, that they might have an opportunity to lay hold upon him, or this they did on purpose to begin a civil war: and it was told Abimelech ; that they lay in wait for him, and so he kept himself from them.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 22-29 - Abimelech is seated in the throne his father refused. But how long doe this glory last? Stay but three years, and see the bramble withered an burned. The prosperity of the wicked is short and fickle. The Shechemites are plagued by no other hand than Abimelech's. They raise him unjustly to the throne; they first feel the weight of his sceptre.
Original Hebrew
וישׂימו 7760 לו בעלי 1167 שׁכם 7927 מארבים 693 על 5921 ראשׁי 7218 ההרים 2022 ויגזלו 1497 את 853 כל 3605 אשׁר 834 יעבר 5674 עליהם 5921 בדרך 1870 ויגד 5046 לאבימלך׃ 40
