35 Now Gaal son of Ebed had gone out and was standing at the entrance of the city gate just as Abimelek and his troops came out from their hiding-place.

36 When Gaal saw them, he said to Zebul, ‘Look, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains!’

Zebul replied, ‘You mistake the shadows of the mountains for men.’

37 But Gaal spoke up again: ‘Look, people are coming down from the central hill,[a] and a company is coming from the direction of the diviners’ tree.’

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 9:37 The Hebrew for this phrase means the navel of the earth.