JDG 9:55 Parallel Verse View

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BrLXX Καὶ εἶδεν ἀνὴρ Ἰσραὴλ ὅτι ἀπέθανεν Ἀβιμέλεχ· καὶ ἐπορεύθησαν ἀνὴρ εἰς τὸν τόπον αὐτοῦ.
(Kai eiden anaʸr Israaʸl hoti apethanen Abimeleⱪ; kai eporeuthaʸsan anaʸr eis ton topon autou.)

BrTr And the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead; and they went each to his place.

ULT And the men of Israel saw that Abimelech had died, and they went away, a man to his place.

UST When the Israelite soldiers saw that Abimelech was dead, they all returned to their homes.

BSB & MSB And when the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all went home.

OEB No OEB JDG 9:55 book available

WEBBE & WMBB When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they each departed to his place.

NET When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they went home.

LSV And the men of Israel see that Abimelech [is] dead, and each one goes to his place;

FBV When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all left and went home.

T4T When the Israeli soldiers saw that Abimelech was dead, they all returned to their homes.

LEB When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, each one went to his home.[fn]

9:55 Or “place”

BBE And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they went away, every man to his place.

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JPS And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.

ASV And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.

DRA And when he was dead, all the men of Israel that were with him, returned to their homes.

YLT And the men of Israel see that Abimelech [is] dead, and go each one to his place;

Drby And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they went every man to his place.

RV And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.

SLT And the men of Israel will see that Abimelech died, and they will go each to his place.

Wbstr And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man to his place.

KJB-1769 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.

KJB-1611 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed euery man vnto his place.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps And when the men of Israel sawe that Abimelech was dead, they departed euery man vnto his owne house.
(And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his own house.)

Gnva And when the men of Israel sawe that Abimelech was dead, they departed euery man vnto his owne place.
(And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his own place.)

Cvdl Whan the Israelites which were with him, sawe, yt Abimelech was deed, they gatt them awaye euery one vnto his awne place.
(When the Israelites which were with him, saw, it Abimelech was deed, they got them away every one unto his own place.)

Wycl and whanne he was deed, alle men of Israel that weren with hym turneden ayen to her seetis.
(and when he was deed, all men of Israel that were with him turned again to her seats.)

Luth Da aber die Israeliten, die mit ihm waren, sahen, daß Abimelech tot war, ging ein jeglicher an seinen Ort.
(So but the Israelites, the with him were, saw(v), that Abimelech dead was, went a any/each at/to his place/location.)

ClVg Illoque mortuo, omnes qui cum eo erant de Israël, reversi sunt in sedes suas:
(And_that dead, everyone who/which when/with by_him they_were from/about Israel, returned are in/into/on seat(n) their_own:)

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

אִֽישׁ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל

(a)_man (Some words not found in UHB: and=they_saw (a)_man Yisrael that/for/because/then/when dead ʼAⱱīmelek and,they_went (a)_man to,his_own_of,place )

The author assumes that his readers will know that the people of Thebez were Canaanites and that he can therefore use the phrase the men of Israel to mean the soldiers who were fighting with Abimelech against Thebez. (Apparently many Israelites were loyal to Abimelech, even though it was the Canaanites who lived in Shechem who first made him king on the basis that he had a Canaanite mother.) You could indicate this explicitly in your translation if that would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: [the Israelites who had been supporting Abimelech]

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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 9:55

Abimelech Seizes Power