Judges 9:37

King James Version (KJV)

And Gaal spake again and said, See there come people down by the middle of the land, and another company come along by the plain of Meonenim.

Adam Clarke
Bible Commentary

By the plain of Meonenim - Some translate, by the way of the oaks, or oaken groves; others, by the way of the magicians, or regarders of the times, as in our margin. Probably it was a place in which augurs and soothsayers dwelt.

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Albert Barnes
Notes on the Whole Bible

The plain of Meonenim - Translate “the oak of the soothsayers” (see the margin). Some well-known oak, so called, but which is not mentioned elsewhere.

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Matthew Henry
Concise Bible Commentary

Abimelech intended to punish the Schechemites for slighting him now, but God punished them for their serving him formerly in the murder of Gideon's sons. When God uses men as instruments in his hand to do his work, he means one thing, and they another. That, which they hoped would have been for their welfare, proved a snare and a trap, as those will certainly find, who run to idols for shelter; such will prove a refuge of lies.

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Deuteronomy 18:14

The Period of the Judges

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