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Speak to[a] the lords of Shechem, ‘What is better for you, that seventy men all from the sons of Jerub-Baal rule over you, or that one man rules over you?’ Remember that I am your bone and your flesh.” And his mother’s relatives spoke all these words concerning him to[b] all the lords of Shechem; and they supported Abimelech,[c] for they said, “He is our relative.”[d] And they gave to him seventy pieces of silver from the temple[e] of Baal-Berith, and Abimelech hired with them[f] worthless and reckless men, and they followed him.[g]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 9:2 Literally “Speak into the ears”
  2. Judges 9:3 Literally “in the ears of”
  3. Judges 9:3 Literally “it reached their heart after Abimelech”
  4. Judges 9:3 Or “brother”
  5. Judges 9:4 Or “house”
  6. Judges 9:4 That is, the pieces of silver
  7. Judges 9:4 Literally “They went after him”