Judges 9:4 Cross References

Judges 9:4

4: They gave him seventy silver coins from the temple of Baal-berith, which he used to hire some soldiers who agreed to follow him.

As soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites prostituted themselves by worshiping the images of Baal, making Baal-berith their god.

Then a whole gang of scoundrels joined him, defying Solomon's son Rehoboam when he was young and inexperienced and could not stand up to them.

So Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Soon he had a large band of rebels following him.

But the Jewish leaders were jealous, so they gathered some worthless fellows from the streets to form a mob and start a riot. They attacked the home of Jason, searching for Paul and Silas so they could drag them out to the crowd.

When the people who lived in the tower of Shechem heard what had happened, they took refuge within the walls of the temple of Baal-berith.
Someone reported to Abimelech that the people were gathered together in the temple,
so he led his forces to Mount Zalmon. He took an ax and chopped some branches from a tree, and he put them on his shoulder. "Quick, do as I have done!" he told his men.
So each of them cut down some branches, following Abimelech's example. They piled the branches against the walls of the temple and set them on fire. So all the people who had lived in the tower of Shechem died, about a thousand men and women.

Then others began coming--men who were in trouble or in debt or who were just discontented--until David was the leader of about four hundred men.

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