Judges 9:32
Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:
Judges 9:32 in other translations
| BSB | Now then, tonight you and the people with you are to come and lie in wait in the fields. |
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| WEB | Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field. |
| ASV | Now therefore, up by night, thou and the people that are with thee, and lie in wait in the field: |
| YLT | and, now, rise by night, thou and the people who are with thee, and lay wait in the field, |
| DARBY | and now, rise up by night, thou and the people that are with thee, and lie in ambush in the fields. |
| BBE | So now, get up by night, you and your people, and keep watch in the field secretly; |
| Webster | Now therefore rise by night, thou, and the people that are with thee, and lie in wait in the field: |
What does Judges 9:32 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Judges 9:28-45
28-45. would to God this people were under my hand--He seems to have been a boastful, impudent, and cowardly person, totally unfit to be a leader in a revolutionary crisis. The consequence was that he allowed himself to be drawn into an ambush, was defeated, the city of Shechem destroyed and strewn with salt. The people took refuge in the stronghold, which was set on fire, and all in it perished.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Judges 9:30-49
Abimelech intended to punish the Schechemites for slighting him now, but God punished them for their serving him formerly in the murder of Gideon's sons. When God uses men as instruments in his hand to do his work, he means one thing, and they another. That, which they hoped would have been for their welfare, proved a snare and a trap, as those will certainly find, who run to idols for shelter; such will prove a…
Judges 9:32 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Judges 9:32
- Proverbs 4:16
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
- Proverbs 1:11-16
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: …
- Romans 3:15
Their feet are swift to shed blood:
- Job 24:14-17
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face. In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light. For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
- Psalms 36:4
He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.
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Job 24:14-17; Ps 36:4; Pr 1:11-16; 4:16; Ro 3:15
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Context
- Judges 9:31
And he sent messengers unto Abimelech privily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren be come to Shechem; and, behold, they fortify the city against thee.
- Judges 9:32
Now therefore up by night, thou and the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the field:
- Judges 9:33
And it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city: and, behold, when he and the people that is with him come out against thee, then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt find occasion.
Judges 9:32 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Levántate pues ahora de noche, tú y el pueblo que está contigo, y pon emboscada en el campo: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et maintenant, lève-toi de nuit, toi et le peuple qui est avec toi, et mets-toi en embuscade dans la campagne. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und nun, mache dich in der Nacht auf, du und das Volk, das bei dir ist, und lege dich in Hinterhalt auf dem Felde. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Surge itaque nocte cum populo qui tecum est, et latita in agro: |