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Judges 9:37-39
New English Translation
Judges 9:37-39
New English Translation
37 Gaal again said, “Look, men are coming down from the very center[a] of the land. A unit[b] is coming by way of the Oak Tree of the Diviners.”[c] 38 Zebul said to him, “Where now are your bragging words,[d] ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Are these not the men[e] you insulted?[f] Go out now and fight them!” 39 So Gaal led the leaders of Shechem out[g] and fought Abimelech.
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- Judges 9:37 tn Heb “navel.” On the background of the Hebrew expression “the navel of the land,” see R. G. Boling, Judges (AB), 178-79.
- Judges 9:37 tn Heb “head.”
- Judges 9:37 tn Some English translations simply transliterated this as a place name (Heb “Elon-meonenim”); cf. NAB, NRSV.
- Judges 9:38 tn Heb “is your mouth that says.”
- Judges 9:38 tn Heb “the people.”
- Judges 9:38 tn Or “despised.”
- Judges 9:39 tn Heb “So Gaal went out before the leaders of Shechem.”
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