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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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
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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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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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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