Judges 9:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ When it was told to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and cried aloud and said to them, “Listen to me, you lords of Shechem, so that God may listen to you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ When it was told to Jotham, he went and stood at the top of Mount Gerizim and shouted to them, Hear me, men of Shechem, that God may hear you.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.

Common English Bible

⁷ When Jotham was told about this, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim. He raised his voice and called out, “Listen to me, you leaders of Shechem, so that God may listen to you!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ When this had been reported to Jotham, he went and stood at the top of Mount Gerizim. And lifting up his voice, he cried out and said: "Listen to me, men of Shechem, so that God may listen to you.

Judges 9:7 Cross References

Deuteronomy 11:29

“When the Lord your God has brought you into the land that you are entering to occupy, you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

John 4:20

Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”

Deuteronomy 27:12

“When you have crossed over the Jordan, these shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

Isaiah 1:15

When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.

Proverbs 28:9

When one will not listen to the law, even one’s prayers are an abomination.

Proverbs 21:13

If you close your ear to the cry of the poor, you will cry out and not be heard.

Joshua 8:33

All Israel, alien as well as native-born, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark in front of the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded earlier, that they should bless the people of Israel.

James 2:13

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

Deuteronomy 11:30

As you know, they are beyond the Jordan, some distance to the west, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oak of Moreh.

Judges 9:6

Then all the lords of Shechem and all Beth-millo came together, and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar at Shechem.

Judges 9:8

The trees once went out to anoint a king over themselves. So they said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’

Genesis 37:6

He said to them, “Listen to this dream that I dreamed.