35 (A)nor did they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal (Gideon) in accordance with the good he had done for Israel.

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14 (A)There was a little city with few men in it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great [a]snares around it. 15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that same poor man.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 9:14 LXX, Syr., Vg. bulwarks

16 “Now therefore, if you have acted in truth and sincerity in making Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him (A)as[a] he deserves— 17 for my (B)father fought for you, risked his life, and (C)delivered you out of the hand of Midian; 18 (D)but you have risen up against my father’s house this day, and killed his seventy sons on one stone, and made Abimelech, the son of his (E)female servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother— 19 if then you have acted in truth and sincerity with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then (F)rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 9:16 Lit. according to the doing of his hands

Then he went to his father’s house (A)at Ophrah and (B)killed his brothers, the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, because he hid himself.

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