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but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the men of Shechem and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem and from the house of Millo and devour Abimelech.”
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Verse 20. Town of. Hebrew “the house of Mello,” verse 6. Calmet.—the imprecation of Joatham was prophetical. He had not the smallest doubt but the people had done wrong; ( Bible.) and the three different fruit-trees, which rejected the offer of promotion, represented all the virtuous Israelites, who knew that they could not lawfully assume the regal or judicial authority, without the divine call. Ezechiel (17:24,) attributes knowledge to trees by the same figure of speech, as Joatham does here. Menochius.
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