Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
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Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
So Abimelech and all of the people who with him arose night, and they ambushed against Shechem, four companies.
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Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
So Abimelech and all his troops set out by night and lay in wait against Shechem in four companies.
So Abimelech and all his troops set out by night and lay in wait against Shechem in four companies.
And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
So Abimelech rose vp, and all the people that were with him by night: and they lay in wayte against Shechem in foure bandes.
Abimelech therefore arose with all his army by night, and laid ambushes near Sichem in four places.
And Abimelech riseth, and all the people who `are' with him, by night, and they lay wait against Shechem -- four detachments;
And Abimelech rises, and all the people who [are] with him, by night, and they lay wait against Shechem—four detachments;
So Abimelech got up during the night, he and all the men who were with him, and they set an ambush against Shechem—dividing into four units.
So Abimelech and all of the people who with him arose night, and they ambushed against Shechem, four companies.
And Abim'elech and all the men that were with him rose up by night, and laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
And Abimelech rose, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
Abimelech left at night along with his army, and they separated into four companies that lay in wait near Shechem.
So Abimelech and the people with him got up by night, in four bands, to make a surprise attack on Shechem.
And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they lay in wait against Shechem in four companies.
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וַיֶּאֶרְב֣וּ to lie in wait H693 occurs in 39 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 22 words from the Hebrew and 21 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 12 Hebrew tokens and 16 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וַיָּ֧קָם אֲבִימֶ֛לֶךְ וְכָל הָעָ֥ם אֲשֶׁר עִמּ֖וֹ לָ֑יְלָה וַיֶּאֶרְב֣וּ עַל שְׁכֶ֔ם אַרְבָּעָ֖ה רָאשִֽׁים
Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἀναἵστημι αβιμελεχ καί πᾶς ὁ λαός μετά αὐτός νύξ καί ἐνεδρεύω ἐπί συχεμ τέσσαρες ἀρχή
And Abimelech and all the people with him rose up by night, and formed an ambuscade against Sychem in four companies.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וְקָם אֲבִימֶלֶךְ וְכָל עַמָא דִי עִמֵיהּ בְּלֵילְיָא וּכְמָנוּ עַל שְׁכֶם אַרְבָּעָא מַשִׁרְיָן:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Judges, in the Historical, opens this verse with 12 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼârab (“to lie in wait”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Judges 9:34 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Keil & Delitzsch
C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch
Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.