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Selected Verse: Judges 9:37 - Strong Concordance

Verse	Translation	Text
Jud 9:37	Strong Concordance	And Gaal [01603] spake [01696] again [03254] and said [0559], See there come [03381] people [05971] down [03381] by the middle [02872] of the land [0776], and another [0259] company [07218] come [0935] along by the plain [0436] of [01870] Meonenim [06049].
	King James	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.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
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.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

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.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
But Gaal said again, "Behold, people come down from the navel of the land," i.e., from the highest point of the surrounding country, "and a crowd comes by the way of the wizard's terebinths," - a place in the neighbourhood of Shechem that is not mentioned anywhere else, and therefore is not more precisely known.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

But Gaal said again, "Behold, people come down from the navel of the land," i.e., from the highest point of the surrounding country, "and a crowd comes by the way of the wizard's terebinths," - a place in the neighbourhood of Shechem that is not mentioned anywhere else, and therefore is not more precisely known.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
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.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826

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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