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highlighted Judges 9:55-57 ESV
And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, everyone departed to his home.Thus God returned the evil of Abimelech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers.And God also made all the evil of the men of Shechem return on their heads, and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.
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highlighted Judges 9:47 ESV
Abimelech was told that all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem were gathered together.
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highlighted Judges 9:50 ESV
Then Abimelech went to Thebez and encamped against Thebez and captured it.
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highlighted Judges 9:45 ESV
And Abimelech fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and killed the people who were in it, and he razed the city and sowed it with salt.
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highlighted Judges 9:38-41 ESV
Then Zebul said to him, "Where is your mouth now, you who said, 'Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?' Are not these the people whom you despised? Go out now and fight with them."And Gaal went out at the head of the leaders of Shechem and fought with Abimelech.And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him. And many fell wounded, up to the entrance of the gate.And Abimelech lived at Arumah, and Zebul drove out Gaal and his relatives, so that they could not dwell at Shechem.
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highlighted Judges 9:37 ESV
Gaal spoke again and said, "Look, people are coming down from the center of the land, and one company is coming from the direction of the Diviners' Oak."
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highlighted Judges 9:35-36 ESV
And Gaal the son of Ebed went out and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city, and Abimelech and the people who were with him rose from the ambush.And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, "Look, people are coming down from the mountaintops!" And Zebul said to him, "You mistake the shadow of the mountains for men."
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highlighted Judges 9:32-33 ESV
Now therefore, go by night, you and the people who are with you, and set an ambush in the field.Then in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, rise early and rush upon the city. And when he and the people who are with him come out against you, you may do to them as your hand finds to do."
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highlighted Judges 9:30-31 ESV
When Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.And he sent messengers to Abimelech secretly, saying, "Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his relatives have come to Shechem, and they are stirring up the city against you.
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highlighted Judges 9:28 ESV
And Gaal the son of Ebed said, "Who is Abimelech, and who are we of Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and is not Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem; but why should we serve him?
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highlighted Judges 9:26-27 ESV
And Gaal the son of Ebed moved into Shechem with his relatives, and the leaders of Shechem put confidence in him.And they went out into the field and gathered the grapes from their vineyards and trod them and held a festival; and they went into the house of their god and ate and drank and reviled Abimelech.
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highlighted Judges 9:24 ESV
that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.
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highlighted Judges 9:23 ESV
And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem, and the leaders of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech,
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highlighted Judges 9:21 ESV
And Jotham ran away and fled and went to Beer and lived there, because of Abimelech his brother.
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highlighted Judges 9:20 ESV
But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo; and let fire come out from the leaders of Shechem and from Beth-millo and devour Abimelech."
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highlighted Judges 9:16-19 ESV
"Now therefore, if you acted in good faith and integrity when you made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house and have done to him as his deeds deserved—for my father fought for you and risked his life and delivered you from the hand of Midian,and you have risen up against my father's house this day and have killed his sons, seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the leaders of Shechem, because he is your relative—if you then have acted in good faith and integrity with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you.
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highlighted Judges 9:7-9 ESV
When it was told to Jotham, he went and stood on top of Mount Gerizim and cried aloud and said to them, "Listen to me, you leaders of Shechem, that God may listen to you.The trees once went out to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us.'But the olive tree said to them, 'Shall I leave my abundance, by which gods and men are honored, and go hold sway over the trees?'
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highlighted Judges 9:6 ESV
And all the leaders of Shechem came together, and all Beth-millo, and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar at Shechem.
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highlighted Judges 9:5 ESV
And he went to his father's house at Ophrah and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.
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