Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
This verse explains the purpose of both the present and the former division of Abimelech' s forces into several companies, namely, that while some of the companies attacked the men of Shechem in the field, another company, starting from their ambush, might occupy the approach to the city gate, and so cut off their retreat.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Judges 9:44:
Job 1:17
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