Verse 40
Judges 9:40
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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Who chased and put him to flight, and drove him to the city: and many were slain of his people, even to the gate of the city:
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּרְדְּפֵ֣/הוּ אֲבִימֶ֔לֶךְ וַ/יָּ֖נָס מִ/פָּנָ֑י/ו וַֽ/יִּפְּל֛וּ חֲלָלִ֥ים רַבִּ֖ים עַד פֶּ֥תַח הַ/שָּֽׁעַר
English Translation
And Abimelech pursued him, and he fled from his face, and many fell slain at the entrance of the gate.
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Chapter 9 Context
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And Abimelech the son of Jerobaal went to Sichem to his mother's brethren and spoke to them, and to...
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Speak to all the men of Sichem: whether is better for you that seventy men all the sons of Jerobaal...
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And his mother's brethren spoke of him to all the men of Sichem, all these words, and they inclined...
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And they gave him seventy weight of silver out of the temple of Baalberith: wherewith he hired to hi...
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And he came to his father's house in Ephra, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerobaal, seventy men,...
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And all the men of Sichem were gathered together, and all the families of the city of Mello: and the...
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This being told to Joatham, he went and stood on the top of mount Garizim: and lifting up his voice,...
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The trees went to anoint a king over them: and they said to the olive tree: Reign thou over us.
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And it answered: Can I leave my fatness, which both gods and men make use of, to come to be promoted...
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And the trees said to the fig tree: Come thou and reign over us.
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And it answered them: Can I leave my sweetness, and my delicious fruits, and go to be promoted among...
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And the trees said to the vine: Come thou and reign over us.
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And it answered them: Can I forsake my wine, that cheereth God (Elohim) and men, and be promoted amo...
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And all the trees said to the bramble: Come thou and reign over us.
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And it answered them: If indeed you mean to make me king, come ye and rest under my shadow: but if y...
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Now therefore if you have done well, and without sin in appointing Abimelech king over you, and have...
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And exposed his life to dangers, to deliver you from the hands of Madian,
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And you are now risen up against my father's house, and have killed his sons seventy men upon one st...
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If therefore you have dealt well, and without fault with Jerobaal, and his house, rejoice ye this da...
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But if unjustly: let fire come out from him, and consume the inhabitants of Sichem, and the town of...
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And when he had said thus he fled, and went into Bera: and dwelt there for fear of Abimelech his bro...
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So Abimelech reigned over Israel for three years.
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And the Lord sent a very evil spirit between Abimelech and the inhabitants of Sichem: who began to d...
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And to leave the crime of the murder of the seventy sons of Jerobaal, and the shedding of their bloo...
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And they set an ambush against him on the top of the mountains: and while they waited for his coming...
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And Gaal the son of Obed came with his brethren, and went over to Sichem. And the inhabitants of Sic...
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Went out into the fields, wasting the vineyards, and treading down the grapes: and singing and danci...
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And Gaal the son of Obed cried: Who is Abimelech, and what is Sichem, that we should serve him? Is h...
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Would to God (Elohim) that some man would put this people under my hand, that I might remove Abimele...
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For Zebul the ruler of the city, hearing the words of Gaal, the son of Obed, was very angry,
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And sent messengers privately to Abimelech, saying: Behold Gaal the son of Obed is come into Sichem...
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Arise therefore in the night with the people that is with thee and he hid in the field:
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And betimes in the morning at sun rising set upon the city. And when he shall come out against thee...
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Abimelech therefore arose with all his army by night, and laid ambushes near Sichem in four places.
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And Gaal the son of Obed went out, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city. And Abimelech...
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And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul: Behold a multitude cometh down from the mountains. A...
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Again Gaal said: Behold there cometh people down from the middle of the land, and one troop cometh b...
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And Zebul said to him: Where is now thy mouth wherewith thou saidst? Who is Abimelech that we should...
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So Gaal went out in the sight of the people of Sichem, and fought against Abimelech,
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Who chased and put him to flight, and drove him to the city: and many were slain of his people, even...
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And Abimelech sat down in Ruma: but Zebul drove Gaal, and his companions out of the city, and would...
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So the day following the people went out into the field. And it was told Abimelech.
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And he took his army, and divided it into three companies, and laid ambushes in the fields. And seei...
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With his own company, assaulting and besieging the city: whilst the two other companies chased the e...
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And Abimelech assaulted the city all that day: and took it, and killed the inhabitants thereof, and...
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And when they who dwelt in the tower of Sichem had heard this, they went into the temple of their go...
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Abimelech also hearing that the men of the tower of Sichem were gathered together,
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Went up into mount Selmon he and all his people with him: and taking an axe, he cut down the bough o...
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So they cut down boughs from the trees, every man as fast as he could, and followed their leader. An...
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Then Abimelech departing from thence came to the town of Thebes, which he surrounded and besieged wi...
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And there was in the midst of the city a high tower, to which both the men and the women were fled t...
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And Abimelech coming near the tower, fought stoutly: and approaching to the gate, endeavoured to set...
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And behold a certain woman casting a piece of a millstone from above, dashed it against the head of...
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And he called hastily to his armourbearer, and said to him: Draw thy sword, and kill me: lest it sho...
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And when he was dead, all the men of Israel that were with him, returned to their homes.
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And God (Elohim) repaid the evil, that Abimelech had done against his father, killing his seventy br...
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The Sichemites also were rewarded for what they had done, and the curse of Joatham the son of Jeroba...
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