Judges 9:26
Gaal son of Ebed came through Shechem with his brothers. The leaders of Shechem transferred their loyalty to him.
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27 They went out to the field, harvested their grapes, squeezed out the juice, and celebrated. They came to the temple of their god and ate, drank, and cursed Abimelech.
28 Gaal son of Ebed said,“Who is Abimelech and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerub-Baal, and is not Zebul the deputy he appointed? Serve the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem! But why should we serve Abimelech?
29 If only these men were under my command, I would get rid of Abimelech!” He challenged Abimelech,“Muster your army and come out for battle!”
30 When Zebul, the city commissioner, heard the words of Gaal son of Ebed, he was furious.
31 He sent messengers to Abimelech, who was in Arumah, reporting,“Beware! Gaal son of Ebed and his brothers are coming to Shechem and inciting the city to rebel against you.
32 Now, come up at night with your men and set an ambush in the field outside the city.
33 In the morning at sunrise quickly attack the city. When he and his men come out to fight you, do what you can to him.”
34 So Abimelech and all his men came up at night and set an ambush outside Shechem– they divided into four units.
35 When Gaal son of Ebed came out and stood at the entrance to the city’s gate, Abimelech and his men got up from their hiding places.
36 Gaal saw the men and said to Zebul,“Look, men are coming down from the tops of the hills.” But Zebul said to him,“You are seeing the shadows on the hills– it just looks like men.”
37 Gaal again said,“Look, men are coming down from the very center of the land. A unit is coming by way of the Oak Tree of the Diviners.”
38 Zebul said to him,“Where now are your bragging words,‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Are these not the men you insulted? Go out now and fight them!”
39 So Gaal led the leaders of Shechem out and fought Abimelech.
40 Abimelech chased him, and Gaal ran from him. Many Shechemites fell wounded at the entrance of the gate.
41 Abimelech went back to Arumah; Zebul drove Gaal and his brothers out of Shechem.
42 The next day the Shechemites came out to the field. When Abimelech heard about it,
43 he took his men and divided them into three units and set an ambush in the field. When he saw the people coming out of the city, he attacked and struck them down.
44 Abimelech and his units attacked and blocked the entrance to the city’s gate. Two units then attacked all the people in the field and struck them down.
- Judg 9:23-253 verses77%
23 God sent a spirit to stir up hostility between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem. He made the leaders of Shechem disloyal to Abimelech.
24 He did this so the violent deaths of Jerub-Baal’s seventy sons might be avenged and Abimelech, their half-brother who murdered them, might have to pay for their spilled blood, along with the leaders of Shechem who helped him murder them.
25 The leaders of Shechem rebelled against Abimelech by putting bandits in the hills, who robbed everyone who traveled by on the road. But Abimelech found out about it.
- Judg 9:1-44 verses74%
1 Abimelech Murders His Brothers Now Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to Shechem to see his mother’s relatives. He said to them and to his mother’s entire extended family,
2 “Tell all the leaders of Shechem this:‘Why would you want to have seventy men, all Jerub-Baal’s sons, ruling over you, when you can have just one ruler? Recall that I am your own flesh and blood.’”
3 His mother’s relatives spoke on his behalf to all the leaders of Shechem and reported his proposal. The leaders were drawn to Abimelech; they said,“He is our close relative.”
4 They paid him seventy silver shekels out of the temple of Baal-Berith. Abimelech then used the silver to hire some lawless, dangerous men as his followers.
- Judg 9:6-72 verses74%
6 All the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo assembled and then went and made Abimelech king by the oak near the pillar in Shechem.
7 Jotham’s Parable When Jotham heard the news, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim. He spoke loudly to the people below,“Listen to me, leaders of Shechem, so that God may listen to you!
- Judg 9:16-205 verses73%
16 “Now, if you have shown loyalty and integrity when you made Abimelech king, if you have done right to Jerub-Baal and his family, if you have properly repaid him–
17 my father fought for you; he risked his life and delivered you from Midian’s power.
18 But you have attacked my father’s family today. You murdered his seventy legitimate sons on one stone and made Abimelech, the son of his female slave, king over the leaders of Shechem, just because he is your close relative.
19 So if you have shown loyalty and integrity to Jerub-Baal and his family today, then may Abimelech bring you happiness and may you bring him happiness!
20 But if not, may fire blaze from Abimelech and consume the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo! May fire also blaze from the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo and consume Abimelech!”
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46 When all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem heard the news, they went to the stronghold of the temple of El-Berith.
47 Abimelech heard that all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem were in one place.
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56 God repaid Abimelech for the evil he did to his father by murdering his seventy half-brothers.
57 God also repaid the men of Shechem for their evil deeds. The curse spoken by Jotham son of Jerub-Baal fell on them.
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31 His concubine, who lived in Shechem, also gave him a son, whom he named Abimelech.
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50 Abimelech moved on to Thebez; he besieged and captured it.
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20 So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city,
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12 When his brothers had gone to graze their father’s flocks near Shechem,
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36 Then the Benjaminites saw they were defeated.The Israelites retreated before Benjamin, because they had confidence in the men they had hid in ambush outside Gibeah.
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8 When the Danites returned to their tribe in Zorah and Eshtaol, their kinsmen asked them,“How did it go?”
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31 from Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; from Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;
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26 Now Abimelech had come to him from Gerar along with Ahuzzah his friend and Phicol the commander of his army.