Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation So everyone cut off a tree limb; then they followed Abimelech and piled the wood up against the stronghold. They set it on fire, with the people inside, and all the people of the fort died--about a thousand men and women. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge So they cut down boughs from the trees, every man as fast as he could, and followed their leader. And surrounding the fort, they set it on fire: and so it came to pass, that with the smoke and with the fire a thousand persons were killed, men and women together, of the inhabitants of the town of Sichem. put them Judges 9:15,20 And it answered them: If, indeed, you mean to make me king, come ye, and rest under my shadow: but if you mean it not, let fire come out from the bramble, and devour the cedars of Libanus. . . . Galatians 5:15 But if you bite and devour one another: take heed you be not consumed one of another. James 3:16 For where envying and contention is: there is inconstancy and every evil work. Context The Fall of Shechem…48Went up into mount Selmon, he and all his people with him: and taking an axe, he cut down the bough of a tree, and laying it on his shoulder, and carrying it, he said to his companions: What you see me do, do ye out of hand. 49So they cut down boughs from the trees, every man as fast as he could, and followed their leader. And surrounding the fort, they set it on fire: and so it came to pass, that with the smoke and with the fire a thousand persons were killed, men and women together, of the inhabitants of the town of Sichem. Cross References Judges 9:48 Went up into mount Selmon, he and all his people with him: and taking an axe, he cut down the bough of a tree, and laying it on his shoulder, and carrying it, he said to his companions: What you see me do, do ye out of hand. Judges 9:50 Then Abimelech, departing from thence, came to the town of Thebes, which he surrounded and besieged with his army. Jump to Previous Abimelech Bough Cut Died Hold Likewise Shechem Stronghold Thousand Tower WomenJump to Next Abimelech Bough Cut Died Hold Likewise Shechem Stronghold Thousand Tower WomenLinks Judges 9:49 NIVJudges 9:49 NLT Judges 9:49 ESV Judges 9:49 NASB Judges 9:49 Bible Apps Judges 9:49 Biblia Paralela Judges 9:49 Chinese Bible Judges 9:49 French Bible Judges 9:49 German Bible Alphabetical: a Abimelech about against all also and branch branches chamber cut died down each fire followed his in inner inside it men of on one over people piled put set Shechem So stronghold that the them They those thousand tower women OT History: Judges 9:49 All the people likewise cut down every (Jd Judg. Jdg) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools |