9:50 Abimelech moved on 3 to Thebez; he besieged and captured it. 4
9:56 God repaid Abimelech for the evil he did to his father by murdering his seventy half-brothers. 5 9:57 God also repaid the men of Shechem for their evil deeds. The curse spoken by Jotham son of Jerub-Baal fell 6 on them.
1 tn Or “destroyed.”
2 tn Heb “sowed it with salt.”
3 tn Or “went.”
4 tn Heb “he camped near Thebez and captured it.”
5 tn Heb “seventy brothers.”
6 tn Heb “came.”