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The Fall of Shechem

Judges 9:32

In 11 translations

BSB
Now then, tonight you and the people with you are to come and lie in wait in the fields.
KJV
Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:
WEB
Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.
ASV
Now therefore, up by night, thou and the people that are with thee, and lie in wait in the field:
LSV
and now, rise by night, you and the people who [are] with you, and lay wait in the field,
YLT
and, now, rise by night, thou and the people who [are] with thee, and lay wait in the field,
DBY
and now, rise up by night, thou and the people that are with thee, and lie in ambush in the fields.
DRC
Arise therefore in the night with the people that is with thee and he hid in the field:
GNV
Now therefore arise by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lye in wayte in the fielde.
JPS
Now therefore, up by night, thou and the people that are with thee, and lie in wait in the field.
LXXE
And now rise up by night, thou and the people with thee, and lay wait in the field.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְעַתָּה֙ ק֣וּם לַ֔יְלָה אַתָּ֖ה וְהָעָ֣ם אֲשֶׁר־אִתָּ֑ךְ וֶאֱרֹ֖ב בַּשָּׂדֶֽה׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ νῦν ἀνάστηθι νυκτὸς, καὶ ὁ λαὸς ὁ μετὰ σου, καὶ ἐνέδρευσον ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ.

Who and where

◆ Usurpation by Abimelech

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Romans 3:15“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
  • Proverbs 4:16For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
  • Proverbs 1:11–16If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause, let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit. We will find all manner of precious…
  • Job 24:14–17When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief. The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face. In the dark they…
  • Psalms 36:4Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.

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