37 But Gaal spoke up again: “Look, people are coming down from the central hill,[a] and a company is coming from the direction of the diviners’ tree.”

38 Then Zebul said to him, “Where is your big talk now, you who said, ‘Who is Abimelek that we should be subject to him?’ Aren’t these the men you ridiculed?(A) Go out and fight them!”

39 So Gaal led out[b] the citizens of Shechem and fought Abimelek.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 9:37 The Hebrew for this phrase means the navel of the earth.
  2. Judges 9:39 Or Gaal went out in the sight of

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