SEV Biblia, Chapter 9:37
Mas Gaal volvió a hablar, y dijo: He allí pueblo que desciende por medio de la tierra, y un escuadrón viene camino de la campiña de Meonenim.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Judges 9:37
Verse 37. By the plain of Meonenim.] Some translate, by the way of the oaks, or oaken groves; others, by the way of the magicians, or regarders of the times, as in our margin. Probably it was a place in which augurs and soothsayers dwelt.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 37. And Gaal spake again, and said , etc.] Looking towards the mountains, and taking another view of what he before saw, for further satisfaction: see, there come people down by the middle of the land ; either in the valley between the two mountains; or rather those he first saw on the top of the mountains were now come down about the middle of them, called in the Hebrew text the navel, from the prominence of the mountains thereabout, or because the navel is in the middle of the body, as this part of them was the middle on which he saw them. R. Isaiah interprets it, between the two cities: and another company come along by the plain of Meonenim ; of which we read nowhere else. Montanus renders it, “the oak of Meonenim”; or of the soothsayers; oaks being had in great esteem with idolaters for their oracles and divinations; and perhaps this was a place, whether an oak or, a plain, where such persons used to meet to make their divinations.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 30-49 - Abimelech intended to punish the Schechemites for slighting him now but God punished them for their serving him formerly in the murder of Gideon's sons. When God uses men as instruments in his hand to do his work, he means one thing, and they another. That, which they hope would have been for their welfare, proved a snare and a trap, as thos will certainly find, who run to idols for shelter; such will prove refuge of lies. (Jdg 9:50-57)
Original Hebrew
ויסף 3254 עוד 5750 געל 1603 לדבר 1696 ויאמר 559 הנה 2009 עם 5971 יורדים 3381 מעם 5973 טבור 2872 הארץ 776 וראשׁ 7218 אחד 259 בא 935 מדרך 1870 אלון 436 מעוננים׃ 6049
