Judges 9:45 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴⁵ Abimelech fought against the city all that day; he took the city and killed the people who were in it, and he razed the city and sowed it with salt.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁵ And Abimelech fought against the city all that day. He took the city and slew the people who were in it. He demolished the city and sowed it with salt.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁵ 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.

Common English Bible

⁴⁵ Abimelech fought against the city that entire day. He captured the city and killed its people. Then he leveled the city and scattered salt over it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁵ Now Abimelech assaulted the city all that day. And he seized it, and he killed its inhabitants, and he destroyed it, so much so that he scattered salt in it.

Judges 9:45 Cross References

2 Kings 3:25

The cities they overturned, and on every good piece of land everyone threw a stone until it was covered; every spring of water they stopped up, and every good tree they felled. Only at Kir-hareseth did the stone walls remain until the slingers surrounded and attacked it.

Deuteronomy 29:23

all its soil burned out by sulfur and salt, nothing planted, nothing sprouting, unable to support any vegetation, like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord destroyed in his fierce anger—

James 2:13

For judgment will be without mercy to anyone who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.

Zephaniah 2:9

Therefore, as I live, says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall become like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits and a waste forever. The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.

Ezekiel 47:11

But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt.

Psalm 107:34

a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

1 Kings 12:25

Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and resided there; he went out from there and built Penuel.

Judges 9:44

Abimelech and the company that was with him rushed forward and stood at the entrance of the gate of the city, while the two companies rushed on all who were in the fields and killed them.