Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem,.... Which, though the Targum calls the inhabitants of the place, Ben Melech better interprets it the lords of Shechem, as the phrase will bear to be rendered; for it is more likely he would have this first whispered and suggested to the principal men of the city, before the common people were acquainted with it, and indeed in order to use their influence with them:whether is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, [which are] seventy persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you?
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Judges 9:2
Judges 9:2
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whether: etc
threescore: Judges 8:30
your bone: Genesis 29:14; 2 Samuel 19:13; 1 Chronicles 11:1; Ephesians 5:30; Hebrews 2:14