JDG 9:57 Parallel Verse View

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

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BrLXX Καὶ τὴν πᾶσαν πονηρίαν ἀνδρῶν Συχὲμ ἐπέστρεψεν ὁ Θεὸς εἰς κεφαλὴν αὐτῶν· καὶ ἐπῆλθεν ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς ἡ κατάρα Ἰωάθαμ υἱοῦ Ἰεροβάαλ.
(Kai taʸn pasan ponaʸrian andrōn Suⱪem epestrepsen ho Theos eis kefalaʸn autōn; kai epaʸlthen epʼ autous haʸ katara Yōatham huiou Ierobaal.)

BrTr And all the wickedness of the men of Sychem God requited upon their head; and the curse of Joatham the son of Jerobaal came upon them.

ULT And all of the evil of the men of Shechem, God turned back upon their head, and the curse of Jotham, the son of Jerubbaal, came upon them.

UST God also punished the people of Shechem for all the wicked things that they had done. Jotham son of Gideon had said that Abimelech would destroy them, and that is what happened.

BSB & MSB And God also brought all the wickedness of the men of Shechem {back} upon their own heads. So the curse of Jotham son of Jerubbaal came upon them.

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WEBBE & WMBB and God repaid all the wickedness of the men of Shechem on their heads; and the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal came on them.

NET God also repaid the men of Shechem for their evil deeds. The curse spoken by Jotham son of Jerub-Baal fell on them.

LSV and God has returned all the evil of the men of Shechem on their [own] head, and the cursing of Jotham son of Jerubba‘al comes to them.

FBV He also repaid the people of Shechem for their evil, and the curse of Jotham, son of Jerub-baal, came down upon them.

T4T God also punished the men of Shechem for the evil things that they had done. And when those things happened, it fulfilled what Gideon’s son Jotham said when he cursed Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem.

LEB And God also repaid all the wickedness[fn] of the men of Shechem on their heads, and the curse of Jotham son of Jerub-Baal fell on them.

9:57 Or “evil”

BBE And God sent back on to the heads of the men of Shechem all the evil they had done, and the curse of Jotham, the son of Jerubbaal, came on them.

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JPS and all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did God requite upon their heads; and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.

ASV and all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did God requite upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.

DRA The Sichemites also were rewarded for what they had done, and the curse of Joatham the son of Jerobaal came upon them.

YLT and all the evil of the men of Shechem hath God turned back on their head, and come unto them doth the cursing of Jotham son of Jerubbaal.

Drby And all the evil of the men of Shechem did [fn]God render back upon their heads; and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.

9.57 Elohim

RV and all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did God requite upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.

SLT And all the evil of the men of Shechem God turned back upon their head: and against them will come the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.

Wbstr And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.

KJB-1769 And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.

KJB-1611 And all the euill of the men of Shechem, did God render vpon their heads: and vpon them came the curse of Iotham the sonne of Ierubbaal.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps And therto all the wickednesse of the men of Sichem, dyd God bryng vpon their heades: And vpon them came the curse of Ioatham the sonne of Ierobaal.
(And thereto all the wickedness of the men of Sichem, did God bring upon their heads: And upon them came the curse of Yoatham the son of Yerobaal.)

Gnva Also all the wickednes of the men of Shechem did God bring vpon their heads. So vpon them came the curse of Iotham the sonne of Ierubbaal.
(Also all the wickedness of the men of Shechem did God bring upon their heads. So upon them came the curse of Yotham the son of Yerubbaal.)

Cvdl likewyse all the euell of the men of Sichem, dyd God rewarde them vpon their heade: and so the curse of Iotham ye sonne of Ierubaal came vpon them.
(likewise all the evil of the men of Sichem, did God reward them upon their heade: and so the curse of Yotham ye/you_all son of Yerubaal came upon them.)

Wycl Also that thing was yoldun to men of Sichem, which thei wrouyten, and the curs of Joathan, sone of Jerobaal, cam on hem.
(Also that thing was surrendered to men of Sichem, which they wrought/done, and the curs of Yoathan, son of Yerobaal, came on hem.)

Luth Desselbengleichen alles Übel der Männer Sichems vergalt ihnen GOtt auf ihren Kopf, und kam über sie der Fluch Jothams, des Sohns Jerubbaals.
(Likewise all/everything evil the/of_the men Shechem’s repaid to_them God on/in/to your(pl) head(n), and came above they/she/them the/of_the curse(n) Jotham’s, the son Jerubbaal’s.)

ClVg Sichimitis quoque quod operati erant, retributum est, et venit super eos maledictio Joatham filii Jerobaal.
(Sichimitis too that worked they_were, repaid it_is, and he_came over them curse Yotham children Yerubbaal.)

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

וְ⁠אֵ֗ת כָּל־רָעַת֙ אַנְשֵׁ֣י שְׁכֶ֔ם הֵשִׁ֥יב אֱלֹהִ֖ים בְּ⁠רֹאשָׁ֑⁠ם

and=DOM (Some words not found in UHB: and=DOM all/each/any/every evil men_of Shekem fall_back ʼElohīm on,head_of,their and,it_came to,them curse_of Yōtām/(Jotham) son_of Yərubaˊal/(Jerubbaal) )

The expression turned back has the same meaning here as in the previous verse, except that the author speaks more fully of the evil that the men of Shechem did as if God literally made it come back and land upon their head. While he is using one part of them, their head, to represent all of them, this expression is especially apt in light of the story, in which Abimelech dies when a heavy stone lands on his head. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [And God also made the people of Shechem experience painfully the same kind of harm that they had done to other people]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

וְ⁠אֵ֗ת כָּל־רָעַת֙ אַנְשֵׁ֣י שְׁכֶ֔ם

and=DOM (Some words not found in UHB: and=DOM all/each/any/every evil men_of Shekem fall_back ʼElohīm on,head_of,their and,it_came to,them curse_of Yōtām/(Jotham) son_of Yərubaˊal/(Jerubbaal) )

If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of evil, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: [And all of the evil things that the men of Shechem had done]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / gendernotations

אַנְשֵׁ֣י שְׁכֶ֔ם

(Some words not found in UHB: and=DOM all/each/any/every evil men_of Shekem fall_back ʼElohīm on,head_of,their and,it_came to,them curse_of Yōtām/(Jotham) son_of Yərubaˊal/(Jerubbaal) )

Here the masculine term men seems to have a generic sense. The author specifies in [9:49](../09/49.md) that both “men and women” died when the tower of Shechem burned, so this summary reference to that punishment would include both men and women. Alternate translation: [the people of Shechem]

Note 4 topic: grammar-collectivenouns

בְּ⁠רֹאשָׁ֑⁠ם

(Some words not found in UHB: and=DOM all/each/any/every evil men_of Shekem fall_back ʼElohīm on,head_of,their and,it_came to,them curse_of Yōtām/(Jotham) son_of Yərubaˊal/(Jerubbaal) )

Since the author is referring to a group of people, if you retain this image in your translation, it might be more natural in your language to use the plural form of head. Alternate translation: [upon their heads]

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

וַ⁠תָּבֹ֣א אֲלֵי⁠הֶ֔ם קִֽלֲלַ֖ת יוֹתָ֥ם בֶּן־יְרֻבָּֽעַל

(Some words not found in UHB: and=DOM all/each/any/every evil men_of Shekem fall_back ʼElohīm on,head_of,their and,it_came to,them curse_of Yōtām/(Jotham) son_of Yərubaˊal/(Jerubbaal) )

The author is speaking as if the curse of Jotham literally came upon the people of Shechem. If it would be clearer in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [and everything happened to them just as Jotham, the son of Jerubbaal, said it would when he cursed them]

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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.

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