34Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.


In Context

31 He sent messengers to Abimelech craftily, saying, |Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brothers are come to Shechem; and behold, they constrain the city to take part against you.

32 Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field:

33 and it shall be, that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, you shall rise early, and rush on the city; and behold, when he and the people who are with him come out against you, then may you do to them as you shall find occasion.|

34 Abimelech rose up, and all the people who were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.

35 Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people who were with him, from the ambush.

36 When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, |Behold, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains.| Zebul said to him, |You see the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.|

Judges 9:34 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

9:34So Abimelech and all his troops set out by night and took up concealed positions near Shechem in four companies.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:34And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that [were] with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:34Abimelech therefore arose with all his army by night, and laid ambushes near Sichem in four places.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:34And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:34And Abim'elech and all the men that were with him rose up by night, and laid wait against Shechem in four companies.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:34And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:34And Abimelech rose, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:34And Abimelech riseth, and all the people who are with him, by night, and they lay wait against Shechem — four detachments;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:34And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they laid wait against Shechem in four companies.