Judges 9:36

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.”

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 7:7 : 7 Doom is coming upon you who live in the land! The time is coming, the day is near. There are sounds of tumult, not shouts of joy, on the mountains.
  • Mark 8:24 : 24 Regaining his sight he said,“I see people, but they look like trees walking.”

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Judg 9:37-44
    8 verses
    87%

    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 9:25-35
    11 verses
    80%

    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.

    26 Gaal son of Ebed came through Shechem with his brothers. The leaders of Shechem transferred their loyalty to him.

    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.

  • Judg 9:6-7
    2 verses
    68%

    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 9:46-48
    3 verses
    67%

    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.

    48 He and all his men went up on Mount Zalmon. He took an ax in his hand and cut off a tree branch. He put it on his shoulder and said to his men,“Quickly, do what you have just seen me do!”

  • 66%

    16 But then an old man passed by, returning at the end of the day from his work in the field. The man was from the Ephraimite hill country; he was living temporarily in Gibeah.(The residents of the town were Benjaminites.)

    17 When he looked up and saw the traveler in the town square, the old man said,“Where are you heading? Where do you come from?”

  • 16 Saul’s watchmen at Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin looked on as the crowd of soldiers seemed to melt away first in one direction and then in another.

  • 21 Zebah and Zalmunna said to Gideon,“Come on, you strike us, for a man is judged by his strength.” So Gideon killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent-shaped ornaments which were on the necks of their camels.

  • 51 There was a fortified tower in the center of the city, so all the men and women, as well as the city’s leaders, ran into it and locked the entrance. Then they went up to the roof of the tower.

  • 24 I looked at the mountains and saw that they were shaking. All the hills were swaying back and forth!

  • Judg 9:18-19
    2 verses
    64%

    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!

  • 18 He said to Zebah and Zalmunna,“Describe for me the men you killed at Tabor.” They said,“They were like you. Each one looked like a king’s son.”

  • 15 He approached the men of Succoth and said,“Look what I have! Zebah and Zalmunna! You insulted me, saying,‘You have not yet overpowered Zebah and Zalmunna. So why should we give bread to your exhausted men?’”

  • 9 He also threatened the men of Penuel, warning,“When I return victoriously, I will tear down this tower.”

  • 3 The Philistines were standing on one hill, and the Israelites on another hill, with the valley between them.

  • 24 the spies spotted a man leaving the city. They said to him,“If you show us a secret entrance into the city, we will reward you.”

  • 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.

  • 8 When the Danites returned to their tribe in Zorah and Eshtaol, their kinsmen asked them,“How did it go?”

  • 9 For from the top of the rocks I see them; from the hills I watch them. Indeed, a nation that lives alone, and it will not be reckoned among the nations.