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OET (OET-LV) And_tower of_strength it_was in/on/at/with_middle the_city and_fled there_to all the_men and_the_women and_all/each/any/every the_citizens the_city and_shut_in after_themselves and_went_up on the_roof the_tower.
OET (OET-RV) But there was a strong tower in the middle of the city, so all of the men and the women and all the prominent citizens fled to it. Once they were all in, they barricaded it up and they went up onto the tower roof.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / hyperbole
כָּל־הָאֲנָשִׁ֣ים וְהַנָּשִׁ֗ים וְכֹל֙ בַּעֲלֵ֣י הָעִ֔יר
all/each/any/every the,men and,the,women and=all/each/any/every masters the=city
The author is making an overstatement for emphasis. If it would be clearer in your language, you could express the emphasis in a different way. Alternate translation: “and a large number of the men and women and of the lords of the city”
9:1-57 The reign of Abimelech was the turning point between the comparative rest of the early period of judges (3:7–8:35) and the decline of the later years (10:1–16:31).
OET (OET-LV) And_tower of_strength it_was in/on/at/with_middle the_city and_fled there_to all the_men and_the_women and_all/each/any/every the_citizens the_city and_shut_in after_themselves and_went_up on the_roof the_tower.
OET (OET-RV) But there was a strong tower in the middle of the city, so all of the men and the women and all the prominent citizens fled to it. Once they were all in, they barricaded it up and they went up onto the tower roof.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.