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So now, get up by night, you and your people, and keep watch in the field secretly;

וְהָעָ֣ם (הָ) ha. “the”

And in the morning, when the sun is up, get up early and make a rush on the town; and when he and his people come out against you, do to them whatever you have a chance to do.

הַשֶּׁ֔מֶשׁ (הַ) ha. “the”הָעִ֑יר (הָ) ha. “the”וְהָעָ֤ם (הָ) ha. “the”

So Abimelech and the people with him got up by night, in four bands, to make a surprise attack on Shechem.

הָעָ֥ם (הָ) ha. “the”

And Gaal, the son of Ebed, went out, and took his place at the doorway into the town; then Abimelech and his people got up from the place where they had been waiting.

הָעִ֑יר (הָ) ha. “the”וְהָעָ֥ם (הָ) ha. “the”הַמַּאְרָֽב׃ (הַ) ha. “the”

And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, See! people are coming down from the tops of the mountains. And Zebul said to him, You see the shade of the mountains like men.

הָעָם֒ (הָ) ha. “the”הֶהָרִ֑ים (הֶ) he. “the”הֶהָרִ֛ים (הֶ) he. “the”

And Gaal said again, See! people are coming down from the middle of the land, and one band is coming by way of the oak-tree of the Seers.

הָאָ֑רֶץ (הָ) ha. “the”

Then Zebul said to him, Now where is your loud talk when you said, Who is Abimelech that we are to be his servants? Is this not the people whom you were rating so low? Go out now, and make war on them.

הָעָם֙ (הָ) ha. “the”

And Abimelech went after him and he went in flight before him; and a great number were falling by the sword all the way up to the town.

הַשָּֽׁעַר׃ (הַ) ha. “the”

Now the day after, the people went out into the fields; and news of it came to Abimelech.

הָעָ֖ם (הָ) ha. “the”הַשָּׂדֶ֑ה (הַ) ha. “the”

And he took his people, separating them into three bands, and was waiting secretly in the field; and when he saw the people coming out of the town, he went up and made an attack on them.

הָעָ֗ם (הָ) ha. “the”הָעָם֙ (הָ) ha. “the”הָעִ֔יר (הָ) ha. “the”

And Abimelech with his band made a rush, and took up their position at the doorway into the town; and the other two bands made a rush on all those who were in the fields, and overcame them.

וְהָרָאשִׁים֙ (הָ) ha. “the”הָעִ֑יר (הָ) ha. “the”הָֽרָאשִׁ֗ים (הָֽ) ha. “the”

And all that day Abimelech was fighting against the town; and he took it, and put to death the people who were in it, and had the town pulled down and covered with salt.

הַיּ֣וֹם (הַ) hai. “the”הַה֔וּא (הַ) ha. “<the>”הָעִ֔יר (הָ) ha. “the”הָעָ֥ם (הָ) ha. “the”הָעִ֔יר (הָ) ha. “the”

Then Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, with all his people; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand and, cutting down branches of trees, took them and put them on his back. And he said to the people who were with him, Be quick and do as you have seen me d

הָעָ֣ם (הָ) ha. “the”הַקַּרְדֻּמּ֜וֹת (הַ) ha. “the”הָעָ֣ם (הָ) ha. “the”

So all the people got branches, every man cutting down a branch, and they went with Abimelech at their head and, massing the branches against the inner room, put fire to the room over them; so all those who were in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand

הָעָ֜ם (הָ) ha. “the”הַצְּרִ֔יחַ (הַ) ha. “the”הַצְּרִ֖יחַ (הַ) ha. “the”

But in the middle of the town there was a strong tower, to which all the men and women of the town went in flight and, shutting themselves in, went up to the roof of the tower.

הָעִיר֒ (הָ) ha. “the”הָאֲנָשִׁ֣ים (הָ) ha. “the”וְהַנָּשִׁ֗ים (הַ) ha. “the”הָעִ֔יר (הָ) ha. “the”הַמִּגְדָּֽל׃ (הַ) ha. “the”

And Abimelech came to the tower and made an attack on it, and got near to the door of the tower for the purpose of firing it.

הַמִּגְדָּ֔ל (הַ) ha. “the”הַמִּגְדָּ֖ל (הַ) ha. “the”

Then quickly crying out to his body-servant, he said to him, Take out your sword and put an end to me straight away, so that men may not say of me, His death was the work of a woman. So the young man put his sword through him, causing his death.

הַנַּ֣עַר׀ (הַ) ha. “the”

And after him came Jair the Gileadite, who was judge over Israel for twenty-two years.

הַגִּלְעָדִ֑י (הַ) ha. “the”

And he had thirty sons, who went on thirty young asses; and they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which are named Havvoth-Jair to this day.

הַיּ֣וֹם (הַ) hai. “the”הַזֶּ֔ה (הַ) ha. “<the>”הַגִּלְעָֽד׃ (הַ) ha. “<the>”

And again the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, worshipping the Baals and Astartes, and the gods of Aram and the gods of Zidon and the gods of Moab and the gods of the children of Ammon and the gods of the Philistines; they gave up the

הָרַע֮ (הָ) ha. “the”הַבְּעָלִ֣ים (הַ) ha. “the”הָעַשְׁתָּר֡וֹת (הָ) ha. “the”

And that year the children of Israel were crushed under their yoke; for eighteen years all the children of Israel on the other side of Jordan, in the land of the Amorites which is in Gilead, were cruelly crushed down.

הַהִ֑יא (הַ) ha. “<the>”הַיַּרְדֵּ֔ן (הַ) hai. “the”הָאֱמֹרִ֖י (הָ) ha. “the”

And the children of Ammon went over Jordan, to make war against Judah and Benjamin and the house of Ephraim; and Israel was in great trouble.

הַיַּרְדֵּ֔ן (הַ) hai. “the”

Then the children of Israel, crying out to the Lord, said, Great is our sin against you, for we have given up our God and have been servants to the Baals.

הַבְּעָלִֽים׃ (הַ) ha. “the”

And the Lord said to the children of Israel, Were not the Egyptians and the Amorites and the children of Ammon and the Philistines

הָ֣אֱמֹרִ֔י (הָ֣) ha. “the”

Go, send up your cry for help to the gods of your selection; let them be your saviours in the time of your trouble.

הָ֣אֱלֹהִ֔ים (הָ֣) ha. “the”