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34 So Abimelech and all the army that was with him got up by night, and they lay in ambush against Shechem in four divisions.[a] 35 Gaal son of Ebed went out and stood at the entrance of the city gate, and Abimelech and the army that was with him got up from the ambush. 36 When Gaal saw the army, he said to Zebul, “Look, people are coming down from the top of the mountains!” And Zebul said to him, “The shadows of the mountains look like people to you.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 9:34 Or “companies”
  2. Judges 9:36 Literally “the shadows of the mountains you are seeing as men”