Judges 7:1

Gideon Reduces the Ranks

7:1 Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and his men ¹  got up the next morning and camped near the spring of Harod. ²  The Midianites ³  were camped north of them near the hill of Moreh in the valley.

Judges 9:2

9:2 “Tell ⁴  all the leaders of Shechem this: ‘Why would you want ⁵  to have seventy men, all Jerub-Baal’s sons, ruling over you, when you can have just one ruler? Recall that I am your own flesh and blood.’” ⁶ 

Judges 9:16

9:16 “Now, if you have shown loyalty and integrity when you made Abimelech king, if you have done right to Jerub-Baal and his family, ⁷  if you have properly repaid him ⁸  –

Judges 9:24

9:24 He did this so the violent deaths of Jerub-Baal’s seventy sons might be avenged and Abimelech, their half-brother ⁹  who murdered them, might have to pay for their spilled blood, along with the leaders of Shechem who helped him murder them. ¹⁰ 

Judges 9:28

9:28 Gaal son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerub-Baal, and is not Zebul the deputy he appointed? ¹¹  Serve the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem! But why should we serve Abimelech? ¹² 

¹ tn Heb “and all the people who were with him.”

² sn The name Harod means, ironically, “trembling.”

³ tn Heb “Midian.” The LXX reads “and Amalek” (cf. v. 12; 6:33).

⁴ tn Heb “Speak into the ears of.”

⁵ tn Heb “What good is it to you?”

⁶ tn Heb “your bone and your flesh.”

⁷ tn Heb “house.”

⁸ tn Heb “if according to the deeds of his hands you have done to him.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “their brother.”

¹¹ tn Heb “so that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerub-Baal might come, and their blood might be placed on Abimelech, their brother, who murdered them, and upon the leaders of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to murder his brothers.”

¹³ tn Heb “and Zebul his appointee.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Abimelech) has been specified in the translation for clarity.