The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Judges 9:30 (KJV)
And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.

 

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Judges 9:31
New International Version (NIV)

Under cover he sent messengers to Abimelek, saying, “Gaal son of Ebed and his clan have come to Shechem and are stirring up the city against you.

 

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Judges 9:32 (NASB)
[SUP]32 [/SUP] "Now therefore, arise by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.

 

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Judges 9:33 (KJV)
And it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city: and, behold, when he and the people that is with him come out against thee, then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt find occasion.

 

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Judges 9:34
So Abimelech and all the men who were with him rose up by night and set an ambush against Shechem in four companies.

 

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Judges 9:35 (NASB)
[SUP]35 [/SUP] Now Gaal the son of Ebed went out and stood in the entrance of the city gate; and Abimelech and the people who were with him arose from the ambush.

 

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Judges 9:35 (NASB)
36 When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Look, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains.” But Zebul said to him, “You are seeing the shadow of the mountains as if they were men."

 

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Judges 9:37 (NASB)
[SUP]37 [/SUP] Gaal spoke again and said, "Behold, people are coming down from the highest part of the land, and one company comes by the way of the diviners' oak."

 

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Judges 9:38 (KJV)
Then said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now, and fight with them.

 

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Judges 9:39 (NASB)
[SUP]39 [/SUP] So Gaal went out before the leaders of Shechem and fought with Abimelech.

 

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Judges 9:40
New International Version (NIV)

Abimelek chased him all the way to the entrance of the gate, and many were killed as they fled.

 

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[FONT=&quot]Judges 9:41
Then Abimelek stayed in Arumah, and Zebul drove Gaal and his clan out of Shechem.[/FONT]

 

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Judges 9:42 (KJV)
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.

 

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Judges 9:43
New International Version (NIV)

So he took his men, divided them into three companies and set an ambush in the fields. When he saw the people coming out of the city, he rose to attack them.

 

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Judges 9:44 (KJV)
And Abimelech, and the company that was with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two other companies ran upon all the people that were in the fields, and slew them.

 

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Judges 9:45 (NASB)
[SUP]45 [/SUP] Abimelech fought against the city all that day, and he captured the city and killed the people who were in it; then he razed the city and sowed it with salt.

 

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Judges 9:46
King James version(KJV)

46.)And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.

 

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Judges 9:47 (KJV)
And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.

 

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Judges 9:48
New International Version (NIV)

he and all his men went up Mount Zalmon. He took an ax and cut off some branches, which he lifted to his shoulders. He ordered the men with him, “Quick! Do what you have seen me do!”

 

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Judges 9:49 (NASB)
[SUP]49 [/SUP] All the people also cut down each one his branch and followed Abimelech, and put them on the inner chamber and set the inner chamber on fire over those inside, so that all the men of the tower of Shechem also died, about a thousand men and women.