JDG 9:30 Parallel Verse View

Note: This view shows ‘verses’ which are not necessarily natural language units and hence sometimes only part of a sentence will be visible—click on any Bible version abbreviation down the left-hand side to see the verse in more of its context. Normally the OET discourages the reading of individual ‘verses’, but this view is only designed as a tool for Bible-translators and others doing comparisons of different translations—the older translations are further down the page (so you can read up from the bottom to trace the English translation history). The OET segments on this page are still early looks into the drafted texts of the Open English Translation of the Bible—please double-check these texts in advance before using in public.

Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Καὶ ἤκουσε Ζεβοὺλ ἄρχων τῆς πόλεως τοὺς λόγους Γαὰλ υἱοῦ Ἰωβὴλ, καὶ ὠργίσθη θυμῷ αὐτός.
(Kai aʸkouse Zeboul arⱪōn taʸs poleōs tous logous Gaʼal huiou Yōbaʸl, kai ōrgisthaʸ thumōi autos.)

BrTr And Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Jobel, and he was very angry.

ULT And Zebul, the ruler of the city, heard the words of Gaal, the son of Ebed, and his nose burned.

UST When Zebul, the governor of Shechem, heard Gaal son of Ebed talking about Abimelech this way, he became very angry.

BSB & MSB When Zebul the governor of the city heard the words of Gaal son of Ebed, he burned with anger.

OEB No OEB JDG 9:30 book available

WEBBE & WMBB When Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger burnt.

NET When Zebul, the city commissioner, heard the words of Gaal son of Ebed, he was furious.

LSV And Zebul, prince of the city, hears the words of Gaal son of Ebed, and his anger burns,

FBV When Zebul, the governor of the city, got to hear what Gaal was saying, he became very angry.

T4T When someone told Zebul what Gaal said, he was very angry.

LEB When Zebul the commander of the city heard the words of Gaal son of Ebed, _⌊he became angry_⌋,[fn]

9:30 Literally “his nose became hot”

BBE Now Zebul, the ruler of the town, hearing what Gaal, the son of Ebed, had said, was moved to wrath.

Moff No Moff JDG 9:30 book available

JPS And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.

ASV And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.

DRA For Zebul the ruler of the city, hearing the words of Gaal, the son of Obed, was very angry,

YLT And Zebul, prince of the city, heareth the words of Gaal son of Ebed, and his anger burneth,

Drby And Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, and his anger was kindled;

RV And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.

SLT And Zebul the ruler of the city will hear the words of Gaal, son of Ebed, and his wrath will kindle.

Wbstr And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.

KJB-1769 ¶ And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.[fn]

9.30 kindled: or, hot

KJB-1611 ¶ And when Zebul the ruler of the citie heard the wordes of Gaal the sonne of Ebed, his anger was [fn]kindled.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)

9:30 Or, hot.

Bshps And when Zebul the ruler of the citie hearde the wordes of Gaal the sonne of Obed, he was wroth.
(And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Obed, he was wroth.)

Gnva And when Zebul the ruler of the citie heard the wordes of Gaal the sonne of Ebed, his wrath was kindled.
(And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his wrath was kindled.)

Cvdl For Sebul the chefe ruler of the cite, whan he herde the wordes of Gaal ye sonne of Ebed, he was wrothfully displeased,
(For Sebul the chief ruler of the city, when he herd/heard the words of Gaal ye/you_all son of Ebed, he was wrothfully displeased,)

Wycl For whanne the wordis of Gaal, sone of Obed, weren herd, Zebul, the prynce of the citee, was ful wrooth;
(For when the words of Gaal, son of Obed, were herd, Zebul, the prince of the city, was full wrath;)

Luth Denn Sebul, der Oberste in der Stadt, da er die Worte Gaals, des Sohns Ebeds, hörete, ergrimmete er in seinem Zorn
(Because Zebul, the/of_the chief/top(n) in the/of_the city, there he the words Gaal’s, the son Ebed’s, heard, enraged he in his anger)

ClVg Zebul enim princeps civitatis, auditis sermonibus Gaal filii Obed, iratus est valde,
(Zebul because prince of_the_city, you_hear conversations Gaal children Obed, angry it_is very_much,)

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

אֶת־דִּבְרֵ֖י גַּ֣עַל

DOM (Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_listened Zəⱱul chief the=city DOM words_of Gaˊal son_of ˊEⱱed and=it_glowed/burnt anger_of,his )

The author is using the term words to represent what Gaal said by using words. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [what Gaal said]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

וַ⁠יִּ֖חַר אַפּֽ⁠וֹ

(Some words not found in UHB: and=he/it_listened Zəⱱul chief the=city DOM words_of Gaˊal son_of ˊEⱱed and=it_glowed/burnt anger_of,his )

See the discussion of this term in the Introduction to Judges, and see how you translated the similar expression in 2:14. Alternate translation: [and he became furious]

BMM BibleMapper.com Maps:

Abimelech Seizes Power

Judges 9

Virtually every account in the book of Judges paints this formative period in Israel’s history as a very dark, brutal time when everyone did what was right in their own eyes (Judges 17:6; 21:25). The story of Abimelech’s rise to power is no exception. Judges 6-8 recounts the heroic deeds of Gideon, a Manassite from the clan of Abiezer who rescued the Israelites from the Midianites. After Gideon’s victory, he returned to his hometown of Ophrah, and Israel enjoyed peace for the rest of his lifetime. But Gideon also left a legacy of idolatry by him, by his family, and by many Israelites. Gideon had many wives and seventy sons, as well as a concubine in Shechem who gave birth to another son named Abimelech (Judges 8:29-32). It appears that when Abimelech grew up, he settled in Arumah, (Judges 9:31), just outside Manassite territory in the tribal allotment of Ephraim (Joshua 16-17; see “Poster Map of the Tribe of Manasseh (West) and Its Surroundings, circa 1200 B.C.” map). Perhaps this move to non-Manassite territory reflected Abimelech’s lack of a legitimate heritage from his Manassite father. Later, Abimelech visited his relatives in Shechem and convinced them to persuade the leaders of Shechem to make him ruler over the city. To ensure that none of his seventy brothers, who were legitimate heirs to Gideon, challenged his authority, Abimelech went to Ophrah and killed all but one of them. The only brother to escape was Jotham, the youngest, and he went to the top of Mount Gerizim and warned them against betraying Gideon by making Abimelech king. Then he fled to the town of Beer, perhaps the same as Beeroth near the town of Gibeon. After three years, however, the leaders of Shechem began to grow dissatisfied with Abimelech as their king, and a man named Gaal offered to rule in place of him. Abimelech’s ally Zebul, who was one of the leaders of Shechem, went to Arumah and told Abimelech what Gaal was planning to do. So Gideon and his men split up into four groups and secretly surrounded the city at night. Then they attacked Gaal’s men, and Gaal’s men retreated into Shechem. Zebul drove them back out into the fields, and Abimelech’s men defeated them and captured the city. Some of the leaders of Shechem fled into the temple of El-berith (or Baal-berith), but Abimelech and his men cut down branches from Mount Zalmon (likely Mount Ebal just north of Shechem) and set fire to the temple, killing about 1000 people inside. Then Abimelech and his men went to Thebez and attacked the city. Many of the citizens took refuge inside a strong tower in the town, and Abimelech prepared to set fire to the entrance. But a woman on the roof dropped a millstone on his head, crushing his skull, so Abimelech commanded his armor bearer to kill him.

Parallel JDG 9:30

Abimelech Seizes Power