After
Abimelech, Jotham's brother, and his kinsmen had killed his father and all his seventy siblings; Jotham stood on the top of a mountain, lifted his voice, cried and shared the parable with the people of Shechem.
He [David] does not say, "is there any left of the house of Saul, that I may find some way to take off and prevent their giving disturbance to me or my successor?" It was against
Abimelech's mind that anyone was left of the house of Gedeon (Jdg.
Laurent Naouri co-stars as the High Priest, with Elchin Azizov as the Philistine King
Abimelech and Dmitry Belosselskiy as the Old Hebrew.
The focus will be on Psalm 34, a psalm commemorating a time in David's life when he "pretended to be insane before
Abimelech," king of the Philistine city of Gath (Goliath's hometown).
When King
Abimelech destroyed the city of Shechem (Judges 9:45), he is said to have 'sowed salt on it'-a phrase expressing the completeness of its ruin.
King
Abimelech, impressed by Isaac's success as a farmer and shepherd, eventually seeks out his friendship in a covenant, and Isaac uses the opportunity to negotiate a treaty on his own terms (Gen.
(14.) Here I am thinking of Abraham's pusillanimous concealment from the pharaoh and
Abimelech of the fact that Sarah was his wife (Gen 12:11 ff and 20:2ff), of Isaac's favoritism towards Esau (Gen 25:28), and of Jacob's favoritism towards Joseph (Gen 37:3).
The following banquets can be emphasized as having an ethics of power:
Abimelech's, David's, King Ahasueruss, Elisha's, and Belshazzar's.
Judges exposes this insufficiency as it poses point blank that significance; for, as Frolov rightly argues, certainly its concluding chapters (so, Judges 17:6, 18:1, 19:1, 21:25), likely the earlier narratives of Gideon and
Abimelech, and perhaps even the notices of the minor judges (p.
Abimelech is killed by a woman dropping a stone on his head.
(41) This evil spirit appears to have functioned as a mechanism which drove a wedge between David and Saul in a similar way that an evil spirit (ruah raa) placed the men of Shechem against
Abimelech (Judges 9:23).
While Judaism includes some of Abraham's more dubious character traits--such as, when seeking to protect himself, he pretends to the Pharaoh and to King
Abimelech that Sarai is his sister rather than his wife (Genesis 12 and 20)--Islam idealizes Abraham as a model for the Prophet Muhammed, with both representing what it means to be a perfect Muslim.