52Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.


In Context

49 All the people likewise each cut down his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them at the base of the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire on them; so that all the people of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

50 Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

51 But there was a strong tower within the city, and there fled all the men and women, and all they of the city, and shut themselves in, and went up to the roof of the tower.

52 Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

53 A certain woman cast an upper millstone on Abimelech's head, and broke his skull.

54 Then he called hastily to the young man his armor bearer, and said to him, |Draw your sword, and kill me, that men not say of me, 'A woman killed him.' His young man thrust him through, and he died.|

Judges 9:52 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

9:52Abimelech went to the tower and stormed it. But as he approached the entrance to the tower to set it on fire,

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:52And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:52And Abimelech coming near the tower, fought stoutly: and approaching to the gate, endeavoured to set fire to it:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:52And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and drew near unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:52And Abim'elech came to the tower, and fought against it, and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:52And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:52And Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and came near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:52And Abimelech cometh unto the tower, and fighteth against it, and draweth nigh unto the opening of the tower to burn it with fire,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:52And Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and went hard to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.