Teks -- Judges 9:13 (NET)

9:13 But the grapevine said to them, ‘I am not going to stop producing my wine, which makes gods and men so happy, just to sway above the other trees!’

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Jdg 9:13 - Cheareth God

Wherewith God is well pleased, because it was offered to God.

JFB: Jdg 9:13 - wine, which cheereth God and man

Not certainly in the same manner. God might be said to be "cheered" by it, when the sacrifices were accepted, as He is said also to be honored by oil (Jdg 9:9).

Clarke: Jdg 9:13 - Which cheereth God and man

Which cheereth God and man - I believe אלהים elohim here is to be taken in the same sense proposed on Jdg 9:9. Vast libations of wine, as well as much oil, were used in heathenish sacrifices and offerings; and it was their opinion that the gods actually partook of, and were delighted with, both the wine and oil. The pagan mythology furnishes the most exquisite wines to its gods in heaven, and hence the nectar and ambrosia so much talked of and praised by the ancients. It is not reasonable to suppose that Jotham makes any reference here to the sacrifices, oblations, and perfumes offered to the true God. This language the idolatrous Shechemites could scarcely understand. What could the worshippers of Baal-berith know of the worship of the God who gave his law to Moses? And it is not very likely that Jotham himself was well acquainted with the sacred rites of the Mosaic religion, as they had been little preached in his time.

TSK: Jdg 9:13 - cheereth

cheereth : Num 15:5, Num 15:7, Num 15:10; Psa 104:15; Pro 31:6; Ecc 10:19

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Jdg 9:13

Wherewith God is well-pleased, because it was offered to God, Num 15:5,7,10 . See also Psa 104:15 Pro 31:6 .

Haydock: Jdg 9:13 - Cheereth God and men // Tunc veniunt risus, tunc pauper cornua sumit.---Tunc dolor et curæ rugaque frontis abit

Cheereth God and men. Wine is here represented as agreeable to God, because he had appointed it to be offered up with his sacrifices. But we are not obliged to take these words, spoken by the trees in Joatham's parable, according to the strict rigour of divinity; but only in a sense accommodated to the design of the parable expressed in the conclusion of it. (Challoner) ---

The same word, Elohim, which is translated God may also signify any powerful man, as in ver. 9. (Haydock) ---

Yet wine may be said to cheer God, in the same figurative sense, as the odour of victims is sweet and delightful to him. (Calmet) ---

He is pleased with the devotion of men, and requires these things as a testimony of their love and fidelity. (Haydock) ---

Joatham might speak according to the notions of the idolaters, who thought that their gods really fed on ambrosia and nectar, and were pleased with the smell of victims and of perfumes. That wine cheereth the heart of man needs no proof, Psalm ciii. 15. ---

Tunc veniunt risus, tunc pauper cornua sumit.---Tunc dolor et curæ rugaque frontis abit. (Ovid)

Gill: Jdg 9:13 - And the vine said unto them // shall I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man // and go to be promoted over the trees

And the vine said unto them,.... By way of denial and refusal, as the other two:

shall I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man; which being used in the drink offerings was acceptable to God, and of a sweet savour to him, Num 15:7 and being drank by than, revives, refreshes, and makes glad, when before sorrowful, drooping, faint, and weary, Psa 104:15 though some by Elohim, rendered God, understand great personages, as men of quality, magistrates, &c. and by man the common people, and so in Jdg 9:9.

and go to be promoted over the trees? all speak the same language, being of the same sentiment.