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19 So if you have shown loyalty and integrity to Jerub Baal and his family[a] today, then may Abimelech bring you happiness and may you bring him happiness![b] 20 But if not, may fire blaze from Abimelech and consume the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo! May fire also blaze from the leaders of Shechem and Beth Millo and consume Abimelech!” 21 Then Jotham ran away[c] to Beer and lived there to escape from[d] Abimelech his half-brother.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 9:19 tn Heb “house.”
  2. Judges 9:19 tn Heb “then rejoice in Abimelech, and may he also rejoice in you.”
  3. Judges 9:21 tn Heb “fled and ran away and went.”
  4. Judges 9:21 tn Heb “there from before.”
  5. Judges 9:21 tn Heb “his brother.”