SEV Biblia, Chapter 9:28
Y Gaal hijo de Ebed dijo: ¿Quién es Abimelec y qué es Siquem, para que nosotros le sirvamos a él? ¿No es hijo de Jerobaal? ¿Y no es Zebul su asistente? Servid a los varones de Hamor padre de Siquem. ¿Por qué habíamos de servir a él?
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Judges 9:28
Verse 28. Zebul his officer] wdyqp pekido, his overseer; probably governor of Shechem in his absence.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 28. And Gaal the son of Ebed said , etc.] As they were then making merry, drinking and carousing: who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him ? who is this Abimelech the Shechemite? or who is he more than Shechem, the old prince of this place, long ago dispossessed of it? the one is no better than the other, nor has a better title to rule and government than the other, that we should serve him; nay, of the two, the descendants of the old Shechem have the best title: is not he the son of Jerubbaal ? that pleaded against Baal, and threw down his altar, the god you now serve: and Zebul his officer ? has he not set him over you? not content to rule you himself, he has set up another as an officer over you under him, and thus you are like to be governed in a tyrannical manner, and oppressed: serve the men of Hamor--for why should we serve him ? that is, rather serve them than him; which was speaking very contemptuously of his government, preferring the descendants of Hamor, the old Canaanitish prince, that ruled in this place, to Abimelech; and if Gaal was a descendant of his, he spoke in good earnest, and thought this a proper opportunity to get the government of the city restored to him and his family, since their old religion and idolatry were established among them; and if they had received the one, why not the other?
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
ויאמר 559 געל 1603 בן 1121 עבד 5651 מי 4310 אבימלך 40 ומי 4310 שׁכם 7927 כי 3588 נעבדנו 5647 הלא 3808 בן 1121 ירבעל 3378 וזבל 2083 פקידו 6496 עבדו 5647 את 853 אנשׁי 376 חמור 2544 אבי 1 שׁכם 7927 ומדוע 4069 נעבדנו 5647 אנחנו׃ 587
