SEV Biblia, Chapter 9:54
Y luego él llamó a su escudero, y le dijo: Saca tu espada y mátame, para que no se diga de mí: Una mujer lo mató. Y su escudero le atravesó, y murió.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Judges 9:54
Verse 54. Draw thy sword, and slay me] It was a disgrace to be killed by a woman; on this account, Seneca the tragedian deplores the death of Hercules: - O turpe fatum! femina Herculeae necis Autor feritur. HERC. OETAEUS, ver. 1177. "O dishonourable fate! a woman is reported to have been author of the death of Hercules." Abimelech was also afraid that if he fell thus mortally wounded into the hands of his enemies they might treat him with cruelty and insult.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 54. Then he called hastily to the young man his armourbearer , etc.] Perceiving it was a mortal blow that was given him, and he should soon expire; and that the cast of the stone was by the hand of a woman, and therefore he was in haste to have the young man come to him: and said unto him, draw thy sword and slay me, that men say not of me, a woman slew him ; it being reckoned very ignominious and reproachful to die by the hand of a woman, and especially any great personage, as a king or general of an army f215 ; to avoid this, he chose rather to be guilty of suicide, or of what cannot well be excused from it, and so died by suicide; which, added to all his other sins, he seemed to have no sense of, or repentance for; and the method he took to conceal the shame of his death served the more to spread it; for this circumstance of his death could not be given without the reason of it, and which was remembered and related punctually near two hundred years afterwards, ( 2 Samuel 11:21).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 50-57 - The Shechemites were ruined by Abimelech; now he is reckoned with, wh was their leader in villany. Evil pursues sinners, and sometime overtakes them, when not only at ease, but triumphant. Thoug wickedness may prosper a while, it will not prosper always. The histor of mankind, if truly told, would greatly resemble that of this chapter The records of what are called splendid events present to us suc contests for power. Such scenes, though praised of men, fully explai the Scripture doctrine of the deceitfulness and desperate wickedness of the human heart, the force of men's lust, and the effect of Satan' influence. Lord, thou has given us thy word of truth and righteousness O pour upon us thy spirit of purity, peace, and love, and write the holy law in our hearts __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויקרא 7121 מהרה 4120 אל 413 הנער 5288 נשׂא 5375 כליו 3627 ויאמר 559 לו שׁלף 8025 חרבך 2719 ומותתני 4191 פן 6435 יאמרו 559 לי אשׁה 802 הרגתהו 2026 וידקרהו 1856 נערו 5288 וימת׃ 4191
