Judges - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 262

lands until Zebul advised Gal and his relatives against remaining in Shekem; so when morning came his army went out to the fields; and he reported it to Abimelek; so he took his force and divided it under three leaders, and lay in ambush in the fields and watched until the army had come clear of the town, when he arose and assailed it. Then Abimelek and the Officers

who were with him rushed and seized the open gate of the town ;-—-and the two other Leaders charged upon all who were in the iieldsiand repulsed them, whilst Abimelek assailed the town all that day and captured it and killed the people who were in it, and threw down the houses, and sowed it with salt. (ac. 1200.) Qlximzlzk aszmzliz the 47 49 3’¤ri uf §l;2k2m. When all the Balites of Shekem

tower of the House of their god, Abimelek that all the Balites had were with him, Tower heard of it, they went to the Brith, and it was reported to assembled at Shekem Tower. Abi- melek consequently ascended Mount Zalmon with all his force, where he took an axe and cut boughs from the trees, and hoisted them upon his shoulder, and said to the people who ‘What you have seen me do, be

So all the army each cut a branch and marched after Abimelek, and piled them against the tower, and set the tower on fire with them, and thus killed all the people in the Tower of Shekem, about a thousand men and women. 2\hiut2l2lt lizzingzz Elieheig, but ia 53 slain. the roof of the Tower. Then Abimelek marched to The-

betz, and besieged Thebetz and captured it. But there was a strong tower in the middle of the town, and all the men and women tied there and shut themselves in, and went to Abirnelek, however, advanced to

the tower and assailed it, and approached close to the door of the tower to consume it with fire, but a woman threw an upper millstone upon the head of Abimelek and called to the youth who carried his Draw your sword and kill me! for fear they should say So his Squire drew, and killed him. And when the men of Israel saw Abimelek was dead each returned to his home. Thus GOD turned upon Abimelek

the wrong which he did to his father, in murdering his seventy brothers; GOD caused all the wickedness of the men of Shekem to return upon their heads, and brought the curse of jotham the son of jerubal upon them. (ac. 1183.) dhnls-h2n·§l;1tal3 lizrumez @2aDzr. After Abimelek, a man of Issakar,

Thola—ben-Phuah, arose to save Israel. 55 57 10 He resided in Shamar on Mount Ephraim, and judged Israel for 2 thirteen years, when he died and was buried in Shamar. (ac. nyc.) glnir hammer Qllyizf. Then ]air the Giladite arose after 3 him, and judged Israel for twelve years, and he had thirty sons, who 4 rode upon asses, and they possessed thirty villages, called the villages of ]air to this day. They are in the country of Gilad. When jair died 5 he was buried in Kamon. (About B.c. 1161.) mars uf Qimrrlm, mth Eniinnsl dnrmptiun. Then the Children of Israel repeated 6 the doing of evil in the sight of the EvER—L1v1NG, and served the Balim and Ashtaroths, and the gods of Aram, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the sons of Aram, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the Evan-Liviuo, and did not serve Him; so the anger of 7 the EVE R-LIVING burnt against Israel, and He gave them up to the hand of the Philistines, and to the power of the people of Amon, who crushed 8 and oppressed the Children of Israel, who were in Bashan beyond the jordan, in the country of the Amorites, and in Gilad, for eighteen years. (ac. 1159.) Wye kitnrites rahage all Ezrazl fur fhigljtzm Quite. The Amorites also passed over the lg ]ordan to make war with judah and Benj amin, and the House of Ephraim, brokehisskull. Whenheimmediately l and ravaged Israel greatly. Then 10 262