Say, I pray you, in the audience of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, that all the sons of Jerubbaal, which are seventy persons, reign over you, either that one reign over you? Remember also, that I am your [a]bone, and your flesh.

Then his mother’s brethren spake of him in the audience of all the men of Shechem, all these words: and their hearts were moved to follow Abimelech: for said they, He is our brother.

And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-Berith, wherewith Abimelech hired [b]vain and light fellows which followed him.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 9:2 Of your kindred by my mother’s side.
  2. Judges 9:4 Or, idle fellows and vagabonds.

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