36 When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “[a]Look, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains.” But Zebul said to him, “You are seeing the shadow of the mountains as if they were people.” 37 And Gaal spoke yet again and said, “Look, people are coming down from (A)the [b]highest part of the land, and one [c]unit is coming by way of [d]the diviners’ [e]oak.” 38 Then Zebul said to him, “Where then is your [f]boasting with which you said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Is this not the people whom you rejected? Go out now and fight them!”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 9:36 Lit Behold
  2. Judges 9:37 Lit center
  3. Judges 9:37 Lit head
  4. Judges 9:37 Heb Elon-meonenim
  5. Judges 9:37 Or terebinth
  6. Judges 9:38 Lit mouth

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