Judges 9:18
16 Now if you have acted faithfully and honestly in making Abimelech king, if you have done well by Jerubbaal and his family, and if you have done to him as he deserves—
17 for my father fought for you and risked his life to deliver you from the hand of Midian,
but you have risen up against my father’s house this day and killed his seventy sons on a single stone, and you have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the leaders of Shechem because he is your brother—
19 if you have acted faithfully and honestly toward Jerubbaal and his house this day, then may you rejoice in Abimelech, and he in you.
20 But if not, may fire come from Abimelech and consume the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo, and may fire come from the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo and consume Abimelech.”
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- BSB
- but you have risen up against my father’s house this day and killed his seventy sons on a single stone, and you have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the leaders of Shechem because he is your brother—
- KJV
- And ye are risen up against my father’s house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother;)
- WEB
- and you have risen up against my father’s house today and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);
- ASV
- and ye are risen up against my father`s house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maid-servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);
- DARBY
- but ye are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy men, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his handmaid, king over the citizens of Shechem, because he is your brother;
- BLB
- And you⁺ have risen up against the house of my father this day and killed his sons, seventy men, on one stone, and made Abimelech son of his maidservant king over the men of Shechem, because he [is] your⁺ brother—
- ÅB
- - men dere har idag reist dere imot min fars hus og slått ihjel hans sønner, sytti mann på én stein, og gjort hans slavekvinnes sønn, Abimelek, til konge over Sikems menn, fordi han er deres bror -
- OTB
- men i dag har dere reist dere mot min fars hus, drept hans sønner, sytti menn, på én stein, og gjort Abimelek, sønnen til hans kvinnelige slave, til konge over lederne i Sikem fordi han er deres slektning—
- B1930
- - men I har idag reist eder imot min fars hus og slått ihjel hans sønner, sytti mann på én sten, og gjort hans trælkvinnes sønn, Abimelek, til konge over Sikems menn, fordi han er eders bror -
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Judges 9:5–6
He went to his father’s house in Ophrah, and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.
Read in contextPsalms 109:4
In return for my love they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.
Read in contextJudges 8:35
They did not show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) for all the good things he had done for Israel.
Read in contextJudges 9:14
Finally all the trees said to the thornbush, ‘Come and reign over us.’
Read in contextJudges 8:30–31
Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives.
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