KJV King James Version
And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that [was] therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
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Judges 9:45
And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that [was] therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And all that day Abimelech fought against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he demolished the city and sowed it with salt.
WEB World English Bible
Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and killed the people who were therein: and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
ASV American Standard Version
And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that were therein: and he beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and Abimelech hath fought against the city all that day, and captureth the city, and the people who are in it he hath slain, and he breaketh down the city, and soweth it with salt.
Surrounding context — Judges 9
42 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.
43 And he took the people, and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the field, and looked, and, behold, the people [were] come forth out of the city; and he rose up against them, and smote them.
44 And Abimelech, and the company that [was] with him, rushed forward, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and the two [other] companies ran upon all [the people] that [were] in the fields, and slew them.
45 And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that [was] therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
46 And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard [that], they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.
47 And it was told Abimelech, that all the men of the tower of Shechem were gathered together.
48 And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that [were] with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid [it] on his shoulder, and said unto the people that [were] with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, [and] do as I [have done].
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וַאֲבִימֶ֜לֶךְH40 · a.vi.me.lekhAbimelechנִלְחָ֣םH3898 · la.chamto fightבָּעִ֗ירH5892 · irexcitementכֹּ֚לH3605 · kolallהַיּ֣וֹםH3117 · yomdayהַה֔וּאH1931 · huhe/she/itוַיִּלְכֹּד֙H3920 · la.khadto captureאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הָעִ֔ירH5892 · irexcitementוְאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הָעָ֥םH5971 · ampeopleאֲשֶׁר־H834 · a.sherwhichבָּ֖הּH9034 · haherהָרָ֑גH2026 · ha.ragto killוַיִּתֹּץ֙H5422 · na.tatsto tearאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הָעִ֔ירH5892 · irexcitementוַיִּזְרָעֶ֖הָH2232 · za.rato sowמֶֽלַח׃ פH4417 · me.lachSalt (Sea)
Cross-references
2 Kings 3:25And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about [it], and smote it.Deuteronomy 29:23[And that] the whole land thereof [is] brimstone, and salt, [and] burning, [that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:1 Kings 12:25Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel.Zephaniah 2:9Therefore [as] I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, [even] the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.Psalm 107:34A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.James 2:13For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.Ezekiel 47:11But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
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