Judges 9:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴ And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired worthless and foolhardy men who followed him.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him.

Common English Bible

⁴ They gave him seventy pieces of silver from the temple of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless men, who became his posse.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And they gave to him the weight of seventy silver coins from the shrine of Baal-berith. With this, he hired for himself indigent and wandering men, and they followed him.

Judges 9:4 Cross References

2 Samuel 6:20

And David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, “How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants' maids, as one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!”

2 Chronicles 13:7

and certain worthless scoundrels gathered about him and defied Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and irresolute and could not withstand them.

Job 30:8

A senseless, a disreputable brood, they have been whipped out of the land.

Proverbs 12:11

He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits has no sense.

Zephaniah 3:4

Her prophets are wanton, faithless men; her priests profane what is sacred, they do violence to the law.

Acts 17:5

But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wicked fellows of the rabble, they gathered a crowd, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the people.

Judges 11:3

Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and dwelt in the land of Tob; and worthless fellows collected round Jephthah, and went raiding with him.

Judges 8:33

As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and played the harlot after the Baals, and made Baal-berith their god.

Judges 9:27

And they went out into the field, and gathered the grapes from their vineyards and trod them, and held festival, and went into the house of their god, and ate and drank and reviled Abimelech.

1 Samuel 22:2

And every one who was in distress, and every one who was in debt, and every one who was discontented, gathered to him; and he became captain over them. And there were with him about four hundred men.