OLD TESTAMENT

Judges 9:27

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They went out into the field, harvested their vineyards, trod the grapes, celebrated, and went into the house of their god and ate and drank, and cursed Abimelech.

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Verse 27. Cups. Such revellings were common in the days of vintage; (Isaiah 16:10. Jeremiah 48:33,) and they generally accompanied the heathenish sacrifices. Calmet. 16:24. They went to give thanks to their god, for having delivered them, ( Calmet.) as they thought, from the power of Abimelech. Bible.

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