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51 There was a fortified[a] tower[b] in the center of the city, so all the men and women, as well as the city’s leaders, ran into it and locked the entrance. Then they went up to the roof of the tower.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 9:51 tn Or “strong.”
  2. Judges 9:51 tn Or “fortress.” The same Hebrew term occurs once more in this verse and twice in v. 52.

51 Inside the city, however, was a strong tower, to which all the men and women—all the people of the city—had fled. They had locked themselves in and climbed up on the tower roof.

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