Judges 9:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the temple of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows who followed him.

Cross References

2 Samuel 6:20

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 any vulgar fellow might shamelessly uncover himself!”

2 Chronicles 13:7

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

Job 30:8

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

Proverbs 12:11

Those who till their land will have plenty of food, but those who follow worthless pursuits have no sense.

Zephaniah 3:4

Its prophets are reckless, faithless persons; its priests have profaned what is sacred; they have done violence to the law.

Acts 17:5

But the Jews became jealous, and with the help of some ruffians in the marketplaces they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. While they were searching for Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly, they attacked Jason’s house.

Judges 11:3

Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Outlaws gathered around Jephthah and went raiding with him.

Judges 8:33

As soon as Gideon died, the Israelites relapsed and prostituted themselves with the Baals, making Baal-berith their god.

Judges 9:27

They went out into the field and gathered the grapes from their vineyards, trod them, and celebrated. Then they went into the temple of their god, ate and drank, and ridiculed Abimelech.

1 Samuel 22:2

Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered to him, and he became captain over them. Those who were with him numbered about four hundred.