Then Jeroboam rebuilt Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and resided there. From there he went out and built Penuel.
Judges 9:45 - Tree of Life Version So Abimelech fought against the city all that day, captured the city and killed the people that were in it. Then he razed the city and sowed it with salt. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Abimelech assaulted the city all that day: and took it, and killed the inhabitants thereof: and demolished it, so that he sowed salt in it. |
Then Jeroboam rebuilt Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and resided there. From there he went out and built Penuel.
They destroyed the cities. Also each man threw his stone onto every good field and covered it. They stopped up all the springs of water and cut down all the good trees—until nothing was left except Kir-hareseth with the stones of its wall. However, the slingers encircled it and struck it down.
and a fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the evil of its inhabitants.
Its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they will be set aside for salt.
Therefore, as I live, declares Adonai-Tzva’ot God of Israel, Moab will be like Sodom and Ammon like Gomorrah— a possession of weeds and a salt pit, a perpetual wasteland. The remainder of My people will plunder them. The remnant of My nation will dispossess them.
“All the nations will say, ‘Why has Adonai done this to this land? Why this great burning anger?’
For judgment is merciless to the one who does not show mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
Then Abimelech and the column that was with him rushed forward and stood at the entrance of the city gate, and the other two columns rushed on all who were in the open field and struck them down.