The Fall of Shechem
Judges 9:34
In 11 translations
- BSB
- So Abimelech and all his troops set out by night and lay in wait against Shechem in four companies.
- KJV
- ¶ And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
- WEB
- Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
- ASV
- And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
- LSV
- And Abimelech rises, and all the people who [are] with him, by night, and they lay wait against Shechem—four detachments;
- YLT
- And Abimelech riseth, and all the people who [are] with him, by night, and they lay wait against Shechem — four detachments;
- DBY
- And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they lay in ambush against Shechem in four companies.
- DRC
- Abimelech therefore arose with all his army by night, and laid ambushes near Sichem in four places.
- GNV
- So Abimelech rose vp, and all the people that were with him by night: and they lay in wayte against Shechem in foure bandes.
- JPS
- And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they lay in wait against Shechem in four companies.
- LXXE
- And Abimelech and all the people with him rose up by night, and formed an ambuscade against Sychem in four companies.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- וַיָּ֧קָם אֲבִימֶ֛לֶךְ וְכָל־הָעָ֥ם אֲשֶׁר־עִמּ֖וֹ לָ֑יְלָה וַיֶּאֶרְב֣וּ עַל־שְׁכֶ֔ם אַרְבָּעָ֖ה רָאשִֽׁים׃
- LXX-Br
- Καὶ ἀνέστη Ἀβιμέλεχ καὶ πᾶς ὁ λαὸς μετʼ αὐτοῦ νυκτὸς, καὶ ἐνήδρευσαν ἐπὶ Συχὲμ τέτρασιν ἀρχαῖς.
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